PODIUM is the outcome of a provocative role play addressing professional forms of "speaking about others". A compelling viewing experience that challenges the authority of the "expert" and our common notions of who deserves to take center stage and who is expected to sit in the background. From the performances of six different speakers, Franziska Kabisch has constructed a "podium" of heated debates, blind solidarities and glorious misunderstandings. What we have learned to refer to as "discourse" is exposed here as the production of emotionally and politically charged speech acts.