Purgatory Society: A Liminal Walk (2025-2026)
Photo: Lucía Alfaro Valencia
Workshop, Performance, and Mixed media installation
Part 1 & 2
Date: August 13th & 15th, 2025, 19:00-21:00
Venue: nGbK and Berlin-Mitte
Exhibition ‘Dissident Paths: Traces’
Date: Februay 26th - 28th 2026
Venue: nGbK
Purgatory Society: A Liminal Walk is a processional performance inspired by Korean funeral rites, reimagined as a public ritual for collective mourning. Through a slow, embodied walk along migratory borderlines, the project mourns personal loss and the shared grief of displaced lives, silenced histories, and distant tragedies. Mourning becomes a form of resistance – a way to make loss visible and grievable in a society that deprives us of time and space to mourn. Purgatory Society proposes grief as a starting point for solidarity and political re-engagement.
Dissident Paths: Walking Together as a Method
nGbK work group: Clementine Butler-Gallie, Bengisu Çağlayan, Raphael Daibert, Luise Leon Elbern, Eirini Fountedaki, Viviane Tabach, Sarnt Utamachote
Organizer: neue Gesellschaft für bildende Kunst
Design: Paula Buškevica