- Installation
- Performance Art
- Dance
The Quiet Weight Of Being- On Bodies, Borders and Belonging
Lisa-Maria Damm
3 July 2026 19:00 – 4 July 2026 19:00
Drawing on Michel Foucault’s analysis of the social construction of “madness,” The Quiet Weight Of Being – On Bodies, Borders and Belonging approaches depression as a politically situated condition within patriarchal power structures. The higher prevalence of depression among FLINTA is not framed as biological but as a result of structural inequalities such as care work, emotional labor, and the social invisibility of exhaustion. Following Janet M. Stoppard’s concept of situating sadness, depression is understood as shaped by social, economic, and gendered conditions. Documentary voices of FLINTA in a sound installation meet the artist’s physical performance. The body becomes a site where heaviness, exhaustion, and resistance are inscribed and carried outward. The work creates a collective voice against the isolation often associated with depression.
Biography
Lisa-Maria Damm
Lisa-Maria Damm is a performance artist based in Berlin. She completed her acting training at the Reduta Academy for Theatre and Film in Berlin-Kreuzberg and later studied Theatre Studies as well as Social and Cultural Anthropology at the Free University of Berlin. Early on, she developed a strong interest in physical theatre and body-based practices, which continue to shape her artistic work. Since 2018, she has been working performatively at the intersection of body, emotion, and activism. Feminist questions are central to her practice, in which the body functions as a political and emotional medium of expression. Since 2025, she has been training as a dance therapist at the Tamztherapie Zentrum Berlin.
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