Something as fundamental as meaning-making can abruptly fall apart when faced with the raw facts of existence. Everyday objects and experiences lose their familiar significance, becoming arbitrary things without inherent purpose. This triggers the queasy realization of total freedom and the terrifying responsibility that accompanies making sense through choice and action. 3hd’s “Nausea” performance event at Haus der Visionäre channels this Sartrean confrontation with the absurdity and contingency of being, transforming existential crisis into collaborative reconstruction.
There is creative potential in this moment of shock, as comforting illusions fall away and make space for acknowledging both shared meanings and structural realities, alongside individual choice. caner teker’s KIRKPINAR translates traditional Turkish oil wrestling into a site where vulnerability and power intertwine, using ritualized intimacy to reveal the constructed nature of masculine identity and cultural tradition. Presenting the body in perpetual struggle between creation and collapse, Kinlaw’s gut ccheck rages against systemic structures while remaining trapped in cycles of overload and endurance. Sippin’ T navigates the evolving space between becoming and remembering, questioning whether we become someone new or return to ourselves, using sound and space-making to rediscover home within capitalist structures that fragment identity and community. Zein Majali’s audiovisual performances map digital disorientation and narrative collapse within contemporary geopolitical contexts, using technology to illuminate how meaning fragments and reforms across networked realities.
At the heart of conscious experience lies a paradox: that the basic questions of being and freedom can provoke both revulsion and liberation. 3hd 2025: “Nausea” creates an environment where performance, sound, and collective presence become vehicles for navigating this existential unease, converting the discomfort of emptiness into a creative process through shared artistic encounter.
Schedule:
8:30pm — Zein Majali
9:00pm — Kinlaw: gut ccheck
9:45pm — caner teker: KIRKPINAR
10:15pm — Sippin’ T
