Humboldt Retirement and Rehabilitation Center
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| Free of charge |
| German |
| Ground Floor, Schlüter Courtyard |
| Belongs to: 24h OPEN |
A time-travelling architect from Museum Island’s looted-art-free future who moonlights as a stand-up comedienne discovers a portal into a public event at a young Humboldt Forum. After some cultural debates and scrupulous self-reflexivity, the institution decides to allow her musical comedy set to be included in the program. Sharing explosive stories from the future construction site where the Berlin Palace is remodeled into the “Humboldt Retirement and Rehabilitation Center” she designed; the non-European architect/comedienne blasts her jokes like dynamites across temporal boundaries, bulldozing historical and contemporary delusions of grandeur both (neo)imperial and museological.
Credits
Concept, Text, Performance: Selin Davasse
Music Composition, Performance: Alexander Iezzi
Movement Coaching: Halil İbrahim “Raven” Aygün
Garments: Situationist and Maison Taskin
Hair and Makeup: Henriette Theuergarten
Thanks: Zoë Claire Miller, Ayke Vonderau, Bénédicte Savoy
Selin Davasse (b. 1992, Ankara) lives and works in Berlin. In her research-based performance practice, she repurposes disparate textual and performative techniques to conceptualize and communally enact ethics from alternative presents and speculative futures. Composed of narrative and sonic textures, her work condenses systems of thought into intimate feminine expressions; and takes shape as spoken-and-sung performances with playful and participatory layers forming heterogeneous hospitable relations with the audience. Recent performance settings include Škuc Gallery, Ljubljana (2022); Centrale Fies, Dro (2022); BJCEM -Biennale des Jeunes Créateurs de l’Europe et de la Méditerranée, Procida (2022); Wiener Festwochen, Vienna (2022); Tanzfabrik Berlin (2022); Rokolectiv Festival, Bucharest (2021); “School of Waters” MEDITERRANEA 19 Young Artists Biennale, San Marino (2021); Volksbühne, Berlin (2020-2021); “Slavs and Tatars’ Pickle Bar” at KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin (2020); “Queer Art, Culture and Politics from Turkey and its Diaspora Symposium” at Goldsmiths College, London (2020).