Artists: Bayo Hassan Bello, Ben Kaya, Selma Stocker

25AV – not to be laughed at, unadorned and unperfumed

Muffatwerk

Saturday, October 31, 2026

Type:
  • Opening
  • Performance
— Credits: Esteban Illorent Linares

The work is situated between performance, installation, and research. The work approaches live performance as an immersive inquiry rather than a fixed event. It positions liveness not as a binary condition but as fragile, unstable, and continuously negotiated between perception and reception. An inspiration and central philosophy for the work is based on the folklore of the Sibyl, divine prophetess from antiquity who delivered prophecies and messages unbound from time. not to be laughed at, unadorned and unperfumed approaches performance as a form of experimentation, where questions about intelligence, perception, and humanity can be posed without the demand for resolution. By treating performance as both experience and experiment, the work explores how belief, time, and intelligence are constructed, tested, and embodied.

Address: Muffatwerk
Zellstraße 4
81667 München-Au-Haidhausen