Hug abandons traditional ordering principles and procedures:
Instead, processes are at the centre of her work, often as part of an exchange with scientists. Different dimensions of time, and the breaking of boundaries – these are the subjects, such as the melting of the Rhône glacier, the creative process during a 40-hour period of sleep deprivation, or the attempt to communicate with plankton using sound. This is how unique dramatic performances are created. Sound is always in motion and thus reaches the audience: it is experienced physically and through the senses, rhizome-like, it touches and may stimulate further processes. In a phrase, which has become associated with Hug and her work, and which was coined in honour of Marshall McLuhan’s famous adage, the process is the message.