《 kritzeln is an act of protest 》 is a performative project that investigates the relationships between writing, speaking, and drawing by analysing the act of manifestation in its potential for visual transcription through the act of scribbling. Based on the idea of vocal expression, text is rendered on impulse into illegible drawings. What ideas arise when a body resists and negotiates without words? Scribbling is primarily a personal, involuntary, and intimate act. In the time of the imposed isolation and separation, it may be more so, reflecting the private terrain of self-caring strategies. In the performance gesture kritzeln is an act of protest conceived by Fanni Futterknecht, such an individual act is explored and addressed to a public, accompanied by the live electronic sound of composer Camilo Latorre. Drawing as an act of communication and a gesture of resistance will be explored and become a manifesting gesture in the space of KIKA gallery Kyoto.