Exhibition opening: Franziska Weygandt - Stone Age people do research

Exhibition from 14 to 19.03.23
Opening: 13.03.23, 17:00

The world feels very much like a dystopia. Climate catastrophe, war, Nazis, pandemic, constant sensory overload, trauma and much more make us dream of a better time. The Stone Age. When we still lived in small groups from and with nature, only worked four hours a day and didn't have to worry about anything that exceeded our biology. A paradisiacal utopia that is probably fictitious. Nevertheless, it is the dream that defies trauma.

The works in the 'Squatting like Stone Age people' series deal with bodily experience and feeling. Trauma is stored in the body. Healing hurts and is beautiful. You can take care of yourself. Friends can be family. Returning to the fundamentally human promises rootedness, promises that the mind will not get lost in personal and global trauma.

traces research station
The Transdisciplinary Research Center for Exhibition Studies (traces) was founded at the University of Kassel in autumn 2019. It bundles existing research approaches at the Kunsthochschule and University of Kassel on the history and present of exhibitions across disciplines. This makes traces a nationally and internationally unique institution for exhibition research.
More information on the self-image of transdisciplinary exhibition studies, the traces event program and the traces members can be found here.