THE SONANCY OF FALLING AND STANDING REPEATEDLY
MELISSA STECKBAUER
23 Mar–13 May 18
22.03.2018-7 pm
The Sonancy of Falling and Standing Repeatedly transforms Galerie im Turm into an experiential workshop, a sensorial playground, a celestial site and a privy witches’ hut; a place to localize and expand notions of sensuality.
What characterises humans as social beings? How do communities arise? What do we need in order to feel safe and secure in our surroundings? Melissa Steckbauer dedicates herself to these questions in an installation-based work made of feathers and foam, filled with granny quilts and sweet-smelling herbs. This work can be investigated on auditory, olfactory and tactile levels. The exploration of sensitivity and softness is a key point of artistic focus, allowing moments of intimacy and affinity to arise. Such moments bring people together, laying the groundwork for community – while the shifting borders between self and other are retraced, over and over again.
Melissa Steckbauer’s work is accompanied by text-based contributions from Patrick Califia, Ewa Majewska, Onyx B. Carmine, J&K / Janne Schäfer and Kristine Agergaard, Nicola Swietkowiak, and Alok Vaid-Menon.
ESSAYS
Ewa Majewska Surface at the gates
Sylvia Sadzinski The Sonancy of Falling and Standing Repeatedly / About the exhibition
EVENTS
Sat 24.03. 4 pm | Sun 25.03. 3 pm | Sat 28.04. 4 pm | Sun 06.05. 2 pm
Sensorium – A participatory Performance
Thu 05.04. 6 pm
Read To Me – A reading (aloud) circle
Thu 19.04. 7 pm
Shame In The Round – A panel discussion on shame with Dr. des. Katrin Köppert (UdK Berlin)
PRESS
Beate Scheder: “Sehen und Fühlen. Melissa Steckbauers Sensorium”, taz 29.03.18
Lorena Juan: “We Could Be Having So Much Fun”, COVEN Berlin 04.05.18
