summaery2025: Projekte

Projektinformationen

eingereicht von
Mira Musawwira Emmerling

Mitwirkende
Jan Munske, Mahla Mosah

Lehrende
Martin Müller

Fakultät:
Kunst und Gestaltung

Studiengang:
Medienkunst/Mediengestaltung (Bachelor of Fine Arts (B.F.A.)),
Medienkunst/Mediengestaltung - Studienprogramm Integrated International Media Art and Design Studies (Master of Fine Arts (M.F.A.) und Master of Arts (M.A.))

Art der Präsentation
Veranstaltung / Event

Semester
Sommersemester 2024

• – Sonstiges –
  (Ilmpark Beach (Blue Bridge))

Während der Öffnungszeiten der summaery verfügbar

Projektbeschreibung

Tell it to the water // Talking about shame is a collaborative performance-installation exploring the politics of shame in relation to the body, water, and ritual. It reflects on how shame is used as a cultural tool of control—especially regarding bodily identity, gender, and ideals of purity—and questions water’s role in both cleansing and reinforcing these dynamics.

At Summary, we invite participants into the heart of our process. The session will follow a structure developed through earlier research: two people sit face to face, taking turns to speak about shame without interruption, ending each turn by knocking on the floor. These intimate, unscripted exchanges are documented with microphones. Writing is also welcomed. Visitors can join the session, observe, or share feedback and reflections.

This event is part of the work process for FLUTEN, an exhibition in October at Gaswerk, Eigenheim Gallery, and E-Werk in Weimar. The final piece will include a durational group performance in a public bath-like setting and an installation built from recorded traces of these exchanges.

The project began after a course with Martin Müller on bodily fluids, where we became interested in shame's silence, embodiment, and emotional weight. Revisiting the topic, we connected it to water—as a symbol of transformation, purification, and repression—and began to ask: What if shame is not something to erase, but something to witness and transform?