- Perspective
Fiction makes me nauseous
Kira Dell & Laura Seidel
3 July 2026 19:00 – 4 July 2026 00:00
4 July 2026 12:00 – 5 July 2026 00:00
5 July 2026 12:00–19:00
Fiction Makes Me Nauseous is a project curated by Kira Dell and Laura Seidel at Neukölln Speicher, combining an exhibition with a performance series across the 48 hours of the festival. In collaboration with scenographer Franz Thöricht, a spatial setting is created for ten artistic positions that interweave personal narratives, theoretical thinking, and social questions: Mina Amiri Kalvøy, Lena Ditte Nissen, Felix Deiters, Agnė Jokšė, Areez Katki, Alexey Kokhanov, Julie Legouz, Melanie Jame Wolf, Mila Panić, and Helena Uambembe.
Increasingly, visual artists are drawing on methods of autotheory, autoethnography, and biomythography to connect personal experience with broader social concerns. Why is social analysis from a first-person perspective relevant – and how is the personal interior entangled with a larger exterior?
Autotheoretical modes of storytelling are often met with critical scrutiny, particularly regarding the risk of simplifying complex theoretical discourses. Yet Fiction Makes Me Nauseous asks about the potential of these forms of narration – especially in a present marked by polarization and a diminishing understanding of other lived realities. Following the notion that the personal is political, the stories of intersectional feminisms cannot be conceived without the entanglement of self-inquiry, theory, and social analysis.
Increasingly, visual artists are drawing on methods of autotheory, autoethnography, and biomythography to connect personal experience with broader social concerns. Why is social analysis from a first-person perspective relevant – and how is the personal interior entangled with a larger exterior?
Autotheoretical modes of storytelling are often met with critical scrutiny, particularly regarding the risk of simplifying complex theoretical discourses. Yet Fiction Makes Me Nauseous asks about the potential of these forms of narration – especially in a present marked by polarization and a diminishing understanding of other lived realities. Following the notion that the personal is political, the stories of intersectional feminisms cannot be conceived without the entanglement of self-inquiry, theory, and social analysis.
Biography
Kira Dell & Laura Seidel
Laura Seidel and Kira Dell have been working together as a curatorial duo since 2018 and have realized exhibitions at venues including Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, and Galerie Historischer Keller, Berlin. In April 2021, they founded the project space Neun Kelche, where they share artistic direction. Their practice focuses on power-critical and intersectional perspectives, autotheoretical artistic methods and planetary perspectives while questioning the working conditions within the art industry. Both studied art history and cultural anthropology, fields that continue to inform their curatorial approach.