A performance about labor, abuse and decline
Fri. 23.06.2023 | 18:00-22:00
with: Selin Davasse
curated by: Kleine Humboldt Galerie
Doors: 6 pm
Performance: 7 pm & 8:30 pm
Automatic Writing Workshop: 7:45 pm
Performance
Tieranatomisches Theater (TA T)
Philippstraße 13, 10115 Berlin - Mitte
She’s strong. She’s fast. She’s exhausted. She competes, she wins, but she’s defined by her losses. Success divides us all into masters and servants. She’s the dark horse, she has many talents, but her own life, she never masters.
Dying is not enough, she wishes she were never born. She knows even dead horses get beaten. She’s stressed, she’s saddled, she’s stabled. They hold her reins but call her a friend. They know she's too well-bred to be a runaway horse, and good horses get ridden.
She’s a beast of burden. Bred for masculinist ideals of domination, trained into resentful submission, currently she’s ridden recreationally by young women. Workhorse, racehorse, show horse, petting horse, she’s every horse, and she hates every minute.
Selin Davasse gallops a mile in the horseshoes of a sassy mare with scores of failed dreams and fading memories. A horse can lead the art world to her show, but can the horse make the art world pay her a liveable wage? Giddy up! This is the dissection of a living breathing career machine at Humboldt University's Tieranatomisches Theater.
The Kleine Humboldt Galerie (KHG) is a voluntary project initiative for the conceptualization of cultural events. Since 2009, the KHG has been organized by students from all of Berlin's universities and realizes diverse exhibition projects and events every year. The collective offers students the unique opportunity in Berlin to try out a wide variety of curatorial formats according to their interests. It is our mission to organize programs free of charge that engage visitors and contributors in comprehensive mediation offerings. We aim to create formats in which young people can access topics relevant to them and learn about artistic practices. In the past, diverse topics such as self-optimization, video games, and the view of young artists on the big city have been addressed. The KHG realizes projects at secluded historical locations inside and outside Humboldt University.
Seating: Continuous tiers, stools, beanbags in placement corner
Age groups: Open to all ages, recommended 12+
Languages: English (performance), German (leaflet & glossary)
Knowledge of English is an advantage. Without it, the performance can be experienced aesthetically. Unfortunately, this would not be an optimal access to the work.
Wheelchair users | Buggies: Barrier-free access. Elevator leads to the hall and toilets.
Hearing impaired people: You can contact us in advance (kleinehumboldtgalerie@hu-berlin.de) or at the entrance so that we can find a suitable place. We try to make the performance easy to hear with microphone and speakers.
Deaf people: The performance can also be experienced aesthetically. If we know in advance, we will make every effort to create a transcript of what is said in collaboration with the artist. (kleinehumboldtgalerie@hu-berlin.de)
Neurodiversity: The performance can be left at any time. There is a mediation corner as a retreat. There, various media (video, sound, text) are used to address the themes of the performance. There is an accompanying glossary that explains little-known terms.
Overstimulation: Earplugs are available if needed.
Blind people: Accessible. Our team can meet you at the entrance and guide you to an appropriate seat. The performance is largely characterized by the spoken word and sound.