Crumbling Binaries - "What, if there were never just two sides?"

Either/or, inside/outside, male/female: the apparent self-evidence of these opposites is anything but universal. It stems from a Eurocentric, colonial order that forced the world into manageable categories—people, animals, countries, bodies. “Crumbling Binaries” invites us to loosen this framework together.

Dan and Mart open up a play space between body, sound, and co-creation. Movement sequences, song, whispered stories, and crumbling materials invite you to let familiar categories crumble—binary genders, human/nature, stage/audience.

We do not put theories on a pedestal. Instead, we knead questions together: we may grind labels to dust, listen to “wandering” palm trees, and put ourselves on eye level with the grass, building collages of the future out of rice cakes and seed paper. How does non-binary thinking work and how can binary thought structures be crumbled? What can grow beyond either/or? A fragmentary collage that seeks answers to these questions in a participatory and visionary way, allowing viewers to actively participate in the decomposition of binaries.

Bring openness, comfortable clothing, and a desire to move. Everything else will emerge in the moment—together, imperfectly, curiously. No prior knowledge necessary, applause superfluous: we prefer to smash what breaks us.

Upcoming

September 2025

Berlin, Germany
23.09.2025
Performance Crumbling binaries - What if there were never just two sides?, together with Mart Busche. As part of the group show Nonbinary Superpower - World as Chosen Family
19:00 Performance
Please RSVP via: NBSPinfo "at" web.de

At Vierte Welt, Zentrum Kreuzberg, Adalbertstr. 96, gallery 1st floor, 10999 Berlin. Take the stairs (Adalbertstr. 96) to Café Kotti, turn right in the gallery, go through the gate – you'll find the Vierte Welt event space at the end of the platform.

Exhibition from 19.09.-27.09.2025
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