WHOLE United Queer Festival
PAIN KILLER is a response to our experience of navigating chronic pain and overstimulation at raves. This year the playground transforms into a pain relief station and sensory spa. You can release tensions, soften overstimulation and experience care at our somatic installation PAIN KILLER.
Installation Design: Elin Laut, Lucy Louis Caspar Schmitt
Concept: Elin Laut, Lucy Louis Caspar Schmitt, Bone Ulatowski
Light Design: Madison Pomarico
Somatics: Tasha Hess-Neustadt, Bone Ulatowsk, Madison Pomarico
Outside Eye, Text: Trinity Bouché
Assistance: Lea Koehne-Volland
3D Renderings: Lucy / Louis Caspar Schmitt
CYBERANGEL
2024/25Performative Installation
Maxim Gorki Theater, Berlin
Winnie lives in her own universe on Tumblr under the nickname CYB3R_ANG3L_3. The endless data streams of cyberspace are the culture to which she connects her innermost being, her thoughts, feelings, and fears. After going through a painful experience, she spends her days between brain and bed rotting in her room. Cyberangel combines performance with multimedia installation and documents Winnie’s daily life in search of healing.
Direction, Text, Performance: Zelal Yeşilyurt
Costume, Stage Installation: Elin Laut
3D Animations: Lou Boettner, Berfîn Karakurt
Sounddesign: Fee Aviv Dubois
Light Design: Juri Rendler
Mixing & Mastering: Jonathan Hamann
Dramaturgy: Anton August Dudda, Simon Meienreis
Assistance: Julia Radewald, Paula Rave, Marco MichellePhotos: Elin Laut, Johannes Scholl
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(has anything happened yet?)
2023Installation, 60 x 100 cm
Silk, testogel container, various objects
Too Much Is Never Enough, Scherben, Berlin 2023
Transition Archives, Culterim Gallery, Berlin 2023
The installation focuses on gender transition through transdermal self-medication. The piece explores the rituality of transitioning – questioning its political dimension, privacy and accessibility. The altar displays found personal objects closely tied to the reality and process of transitioning, inviting the viewer to a moment of public intimacy. You are invited to kneel.
Photos: Won Park, Ania Butenina
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just a phase
(touch me gently)
2022
Manual punch needle piece, 95 x 65 cm
Yarn, cotton, metal chain
queering ~ costume, Sonntags Club, Berlin 2022
Transition Archives, Culterim Gallery, Berlin 2023
The textile piece juxtaposes the softness of cotton and the coldness of metal chains. Highlighting the process of becoming, the manual punch needle technique contrasts aggression and tenderness. You are invited to touch.
the cutest criticism
a loop
2021Performative Installation with live ASMR
Collab w/ Almitra Pyritidis, jpeg.love
Napoleon Komplex, Berlin
“We are queer because we refuse to take a fixed form.” (Antke Engel). “The cutest criticism” is a live ASMR performance on the inner critical voice and queer mental health. Hand-knitted pieces show how a person felt while knitting. In a relaxed state, the stitches are loose and soft. Being physically tense creates a tight, rigid pattern. When we are daydreaming, small bumps or holes show. A knitted piece thus works like a diary of mental health. Textile, body and installation merge into one sculpture.
Praying Mantis
2020Interactive durational performance, 3hours / 4days
PVC, fabric, metal chain, metal mesh, artificial hair, moss, yarn
Display, Berlin 2020
Curated by Constantin Hartenstein
After the apocalypse, the few species that have survived will start to live in symbiosis with each other to survive, rather than exploitation. From this state of being, a new ritualistic cult will arise. One member of this cult visits our present world, and invites you to a one-on-one ritualistic sequence.
Photos: Christina Huber, Alexandra Deem
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