SATURDAY - 8 November
Museum Kesselhaus Herzberge | 16:00 - 21:00
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Boiler Corps
Generative software & Sound
Boiler Corps is a work about logical and technical aesthetics – how they create boundaries between patient and caretaker, and mediate the relationship between layperson and expert. Drawing from the historical documents that evaluated the illnesses and mental states of KEH hospital patients, the work explores the tension between simple instructions given to patients – Bitte hier nicht ausfüllen! Wie hießen Sie? – and their very deep consequences. Through manga-style illustrations that appear to document and relate to a cryptic shifting audiovisual display, the work suggests that this tension involves a sinister dimension: the more we buy in to the surface of representations, the more we concede our agency to whatever is going on behind the scenes.
MENTAL LOAD
Installation & Performance
MENTAL LOAD materializes the invisible architecture of emotional and cognitive pressure that structures our existence.
Drawing from feminist critiques of unpaid domestic labor, Vieira’s work explores the paradox between autonomy and care, reframing exhaustion not as pathology but as a collective condition born from gendered inequality and a self-exploitative burnout economy.
Her work translates the psychological residue of care between awareness and collapse, while questioning:
Can madness be a systemic denial of the right to dream?
Dreams of a Boiler House
Video Installation
Dreams of a Boiler House unfolds across two projections, tracing a site where utility drifts into reverie. Filmed inside the disused boiler house, the work observes what remains when function cools and matter begins to dream. One channel moves through a network of pipes as if following a pulse through metal; the other lingers in a state between waking and sleep, where form unfastens from its purpose. The line between reality and imagination blurs. Together, they open a space where temperature becomes thought and infrastructure remembers its breath.
tf ∼Mγ
Installation
Black holes form when matter becomes so dense that space-time itself reshapes, creating a gravitational void where time stretches and nearly stops. While the fabric of space warps around it, this place will grow in mass, consuming matter, until it reaches a state of fullness. Then, it will emit heat: information will slowly escape. Finally, it evaporates and becomes part of the universe as fundamental particles, ready to take new forms. The installation tf ∼Mγ is a portrait of an evaporating black hole, and a commentary on death and time. By using open-sourced data from interstellar missions (citation on site + further information on used data), as well as data recorded on-site at KEH, Petersen constructs a site-specific universe, asking ‘What is death, when nothing is ever truly annihilated?’ by following the story of the birth and evaporation of a black hole.
RESHIFTING THE (NON)PLACE
Theater
Reshifting the (Non)Place is a transmedia performance in which we explore the past, present, and future. How can we create a nonplace/utopia out of the current situation in which we want to live in the here and now? What is conceivable, imaginable, desirable? Do we have any choice but to dig up our own past in order to understand the present and imagine a future worth living?
With: Lilly Menke, Robin Leo Hoffmann
, Frederik F. Günther
Musicians: Johanna Polley, Francesco Nowell, Joseph Nowell, Leela Faude
GUEST ARTISTS
Samaquias Lorta & Chiara Phillips
[Rite of the Third Landscape]
Performance
our offerings,
colored in red & death,
are of remorse,
remembrance,
reflection,
our guilt crystallizes into this botanical sacrifice,
with foundations of care,
roots of love.
Video Art
Paul Wiersbinski & Behrang Karimi
Spaced Out in Outer Space
Axel Roch
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