The two-day festival “Horizontal” is dedicated to the multiple dimensions of lying down. Through performances, workshops, talks, and conversations, international artists, activists, and scholars open up perspectives on horizontality in its cultural, historical, and bodily dimensions. What forms of perception, action, and coexistence can emerge when bodies withdraw from the imperatives of productivity and performance—often […]
Horizontal is an interdisciplinary festival at the intersection of art and research that explores the reclining body and the horizontal position as cultural, political, and aesthetic practices. Taking place over two days in the Lecture Hall Ruin of the Berliner Medizinhistorisches Museum, the festival accompanies the exhibition "Horizontal - Politics and Poetics from the Sickbed" with performances, talks, workshops, […]
“String Tension History” is a two-part work by artist Kirstin Burckhardt, consisting of a sound installation and a performance. The sound installation will be on view from September 29 to October 11 in the museum’s preparation room as part of the permanent exhibition. The performance will take place on October 10 in the museum’s ruined […]