Sicktopia
FRI 18.10.- SUN 17.11.2024
Opening: THU 17.10. 2024 at 18H
With works by: Marina Hendrychová, SOMA ARCHIVES* with Sickness Affinity Group, Lauryn Youden
Where do we find ourselves in the future where we are all sick? The exhibition intends to work with the state of sickness as a starting point for participatory and collective world-building and as a platform to claim for a non-ableist society. A world where the definitions of sickness, disability, health and healing become questionable, blurry and porous through acknowledging the complexity and the power dynamics behind this fragmentation. A world that generates embodied wisdom and transforms fragility in mutual care and support. An initial open node for compassion towards each other, care, and cooperative futures of all the oddkin.
Accompanying events:
- Thursday October 24, 2024, 6pm:
Curatorial Tour
- Saturday, October 26, 3 - 5.30pm:
Workshop altars as archives: embodying grief, care, and solidarity by Noah Gokul from SOMA ARCHIVES: We invite you to bring objects of significance, spiritual presence, comfort, and care that have helped you through this heavy period of grief since last October. We will add them to a collective altar, and they can be taken home afterwards
- Sunday, November 3, 2024, 4.30 - 7pm:
echo°o°o - collective worldbuilding with Magdalena Emmerig
- Friday, November 8, 2024, time tba:
Descriptive tour with Franciska JC Schmitt
- Saturday, November 9 2024, 2.30 - 4 pm with breaks:
Workshop Slime
We are meeting in a group of up to 7 people to make and discuss slime. Digging into consistency.
We will provide the materials and try to create a relaxed atmosphere with different seating, lighting and participation options. Participation can take place in the group via German and English spoken language and/or a printed guide in German/ English. Please let us know if you would like to come here: sicknessaffinity@systemli.org
- Thursday, November 14, 4 - 6 pm:
Workshop Imagining Decolonial Archives:
Exploring disability and narrative in the context of Palestine, Noah Gokul from SOMA ARCHIVES and special guest
- November 15, 2024, time tba:
Performance by Lauryn Youden
* SOMA ARCHIVES with Sickness Affinity Group is a project initiated by Maria Morata with Noah Gokul, Lisa Ness, Lo Moran and Lucie Schroeder.
German Sign Language introduction text about SOMA ARCHIVES
Curated by Alžběta Čermáková, featuring SOMA ARCHIVES with Sickness Affinity Group
Sicktopia is the fifth chapter of the exhibition series Echoing Futures - On Practices of Radical Imagination at ACUD Galerie. The series contains six exhibitions and an accompanying programme.
Team
Artistic direction of the series: Linnéa Meiners
Curation: Alžběta Čermáková, Gabriela Matuszewska and Linnéa Meiners
Press: Franciska JC Schmitt
Production: Miriam Döring
Exhibition design: Torsten Oetken
Social Media: Gabriela Matuszewska
The exhibition series Echoing Futures - On Practices of Radical Imagination is supported by the multi-sector funding programme of the Senate Department for Culture and Social Cohesion.
