Purgatory Society: A Liminal Walk (2025)


















Photo: Lucía Alfaro Valencia


Date: August 13th & 15th, 2025, 19:00-21:00
Venue: nGbK and Berlin-Mitte


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





Speak Your Story: A Linguistic Exploration of Identity and Diversity (2024)



Photo: Suet Wa Tam




Date: March 22nd, 2024 (Fri),  14:00
Venue: Design & Computation studio, Berlin, DE


How do we ask questions to learn about each other?

What do our mother tongues reveal about us?
How do different languages shape our identities? Mother tongue, foreign languages, or even memes?
How do we define similarities or differences in terms of languages and cultures?

In this workshop, participants explore the tapestry of human diversity through the lens of language and culture. Inspired by historical practices during WW1, where German linguists conducted in-depth surveys of war prisoners to understand foreign languages and cultures, our workshop aims to revive this research methodology in a contemporary context. This workshop encourages participants to delve into the intricate web of human connections, fostering understanding and challenging preconceived notions.


Hybrid Bodies: A series of student-led workshops supported by InKüLe