IMMERSIVE EXPERIENCE DESIGN
PARTICIPATORY DRAMATURGY
MULTISENSORY STORYTELLING
NIGHTCRAWLERS: FAMILY MATTERS
2023
An immersive horror experience dedicated to the queer monstrous, body horror and Jouissance.
Supported by Fonds Darstellende Künste.
Photos by Maik Brückner and Simon Salem Müller
Proof of Concept:
Alte Münze Berlin (DE, Halloween 2023)
EASY ENTRY
2023
"Everything dissipates into ether and weightless rains. In the submerged quiet kelp-like-crystals wordlessly emerge. Seas of indifference."
Eugene Thacker, "BLACK BILE"
A multisensory live ASMR experience about the rapture of the deep.
In collaboration with Omi Tabari and Harald Stojan
Photos by Anna K Bitter
Commissioned by Alte Münze Berlin
Alte Münze Berlin (DE, 2023)
DAS FUNDAMENT /
CRYSTAL HEAVEN LOUNGE
2022
A playable simulation about competing definitions of personal and communal freedom.
Collectively developed, produced and played by denialofservice.fail
Photos by denialofservice.fail
Supported by havel:lab/Verstehbahnhof and Theaterhaus Mitte.
Performing Arts Festival Berlin (DE, 2022)
EXVOTO /
ARE YOU READY TO HEAL
2021 - 2022
A performance installation-cum-live-action roleplaying experience about histories of violence and narratives of healing.
In collaboration with Marie S Zwinzscher
Photos by Marie S Zwinzscher and Vanessa Mejia Cuevas
Supported by Fonds Darstellende Künste, Vorortung e.V. and Altmärkische Bürgerstiftung.
NEZ Brunau-Packebusch (DE, 2021-2022)
LAST RESORT
2021
"The LAST RESORT specializes in relieving sensations of despondence and desolation. Experience gentle Othercare-services provided by skilled LAST RESORT staff as you enter a world of vulnerability and softness. Shed your thick skin and be welcomed with ever-open arms."
A multisensory live ASMR experience about what we cling to.
In collaboration with Marie S Zwinzscher
Photos by Fabian Raabe
Commissioned by TD Berlin
Monologfestival Berlin (DE, 2021)
PLEASANT PLACE
2020 - 2021
A performance installation about #cottagecore, and the longing for URL utopias in the context of IRL apocalypses.
Photos by Corinna Duemler
Supported by Fonds Darstellende Künste and Alte Münze Berlin.
Corona Culture Exhibition (DE, 2021)
BLACK LODGE EXPERIENCE
2019
"300 sq m of Lynchian fever dreams to explore, peopled by surreal characters from the world of Twin Peaks and beyond to interact with. The Black Lodge Experience brings the fears and desires of the darkest corners of David Lynch's imagination to life and puts its own perverse twist on them. Smell, taste, touch; hum, whisper and scream."
An immersive horror experience about liminality and disintegration.
Photos by John Clay
Commissioned by Twin Peaks Festival
Twin Peaks Festival (UK, 2019)
LIGHTS OUT - NIGHT LIGHTS
2019
"Today is a good day.
Not every day is a good day but today is.
I feel good."
Lil Peep, 01.11.1996 - 15.11.2017; audio recording 15.11.2017
A mixed media installation (space, sound) about self-medication and the digital uncanny.
Commissioned by Art Lake Festival
Art Lake Festival (DE, 2019)
AND WOMEN ARE TO BE BLAMED
2019
"On the 213th anniversary of Victorian poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s birth, Berlin’s iconic Sophienkirche Cemetery will become the stage for an immersive after dark performance. With a nod to the tradition of promenade theater, the audience visits several locations around the historic cemetery and experiences performance vignettes inspired by Browning's life and words."
A performance installation about literary patriarchy and ambition.
Photos by Corinna Duemler
Commissioned by SAND Journal
II. Cemetery of the Sophien Church Berlin (DE, 2019)
LIKE THERE'S NO TOMORROW
2017 - 2019
"With the world in an alarming state, glaciers melting, waters rising, floods coming on, species dying, corals bleaching, our survival brains are in overdrive. Climate Corporations can offer relief. We care. Together we will step out of surviving and into living. So much has happened that can't be undone. So much will happen that is inevitable now. Surviving means contributing.
CLAIM CLIMATE CHANGE."
A performance installation about anthropocentric anxieties and coping mechanisms.
In collaboration with Melody Pasanideh
Short film by Elena Scheicher
Bogota Biennale (CO, 2019)
Performing Arts Festival Berlin (DE, 2019)
International Spring School FU Berlin (DE, 2018)
Sofia Underground Performing Arts Festival (BG, 2018)
HOME TRILOGY
2016 - 2017
"After a lifetime of being shattered,
the time to be whole again has come.
PAPA. He understands and he can heal.
NO SHAME. ONLY ACCEPTANCE.
NO PAIN. ONLY TRUTH.
NO LIMITS. ONLY EXPANSION OF THE SELF.
WELCOME HOME."
A performance installation about abuse of power and the need to belong.
Photos by Laura Jung
Gelegenheiten e.V. (DE, 2016)
Artlake Festival (DE, 2017)
THE SHELLS /
AUSFLUG NACH NEU-FRIEDENWALD
2014 - 2015
"It is summer in Neu-Friedenwald and the annual tourist season is about to begin. The merry preparations are disturbed by the sudden death of the town's golden girl Cecilia. Local authorities are quick to declare it "a tragic accident". Once the initial shock fades, however, the talking starts. The young woman's death has torn a gaping wound into the fabric of the community, and cracks in the suburban paradise's veneer are beginning to show."
A performance installation about the Beautiful Dead Girl and complicity.
Inspired by David Lynch's Twin Peaks and Fire Walk With Me.
Short films by Kaspar Kamu
Photos by various photographers
The Greenhouse Berlin (DE, 2015)