The lecture performance exterra follows a motion of return—not returning to an “original” home, but returning to the place one migrated to and made “home”. FEDERICO PROTTO, accompanied by MARIEKE WERNER on clarinet, navigates the layered emotions, memories, and sensations tied to the shifting notions of home—attachment, detachment, and the transformative cycles between them.

exterra marks the fourth and final lecture performance in the artistic research project MAPA. While cartography traditionally refers to a method of creating maps, which has been employed in colonial contexts to control territories and to wage military warfare, this project redefines its purpose. Using cartography as a transformative medium, Federico Protto charts experiences of migration and explores sites of home and belonging.


The annual programme at Halle für Kunst Lüneburg e.V. is supported by the Ministry for Science and Culture of Lower Saxony, Lüneburgischer Landschaftsverband, and Hansestadt Lüneburg.

FEDERICO PROTTO lives and works in Brussels. His work encompasses choreography, music, text, textiles and installation, through which he explores transcultural and transgenerational narratives of migration and potential forms of cross-continental kinship. His projects have been presented at Laboratoires d'Aubervilliers (Paris, France, 2025), DeSingel (Antwerp, Belgium, 2024), Centro Cultural de España (Montevideo, Uruguay, 2023) and Volksroom (Brussels, Belgium, 2021), among others.

MARIEKE WERNER lives and works in Brussels. She is part of the band Las Lloronas, whose second album Out of the Blue was released by Muziekpublique in 2023. For her work in the field of theatre music, she received the 2021 Young Talent Scholarship for Independent Children's and Youth Theatre from the state of North Rhine-Westphalia. In recent years, she has collaborated as a musician, composer and performer with the director Vlado Repnik, the inclusive collective STARLAB and Federico Protto.