The Dorine Chaikin Institute was elected favourite performance of the year 2007 by the critics of Zitty-Magazine Berlin. See here





Time: 17/11 – 1/12 - 2007
Place: Ballhaus Ost, Berlin. The project was part of the Nordwind Festival for Scandinavian stage art.
Duration: 14 days – 12 hours every day. Visitors were asked to stay a minimum of 4 hours.
Number of participants: 16
Resumé: The performance invited a small number of visitors to become patients in a psychiatric institute specializing in dissociative disorders – leading to disruption or breakdown of the memory. Each visitor was by entering the institute given a new name. Each name was matched by a medical history in the files of the hospital . Through various therapies and social activities the patients were encouraged to recover the memories of their fictitious alter ego.

CREDITS

Concept: Signa Sørensen
Media: Arthur Köstler
Set design: Thomas Bo Nilsson
Performers: Signa Sørensen, Arthur Köstler, Thomas Bo Nilsson, Maria Pia Bertoldi, Sol Montaldo, Jenny Steenkel, Frank Morath, Max Pross, Gry Hallberg, Emil Groth Larsen, Nina Matthis, Mareike Wenzel, Sonja Salkowitsch, Katrin Wälz, Birgitte Klæbel and Linn Lamberg
Photo: Arthur Köstler, Maria Pia Bertoldi, Emil Groth Larsen and the audience. Some of the persons on the pictures are members of the audience. By request, we remove any of such pictures and apologize, as we were unable to contact these persons beforehand.
Supported by: Kunststyrelsen (The Danish Art Counsil), P@rt, Nordwind and Ballhaus Ost