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Abrechnungsbüro (Accountability Office)

Participatory Installation & Performance, Berlin, 2025-2026

Debuted at Mõist room to swing a cat, with performers Heike Dehmlow, Kirstin Müller, Sandra Lidner, and Susanne Bartsch

Presented at Freie universität followed by discussion with Lieke Knijnenburg, author of A Brilliant Emptiness, moderated by Sofia Attolini

Performers played the role of tax accountants to tabulate, quantify, and settle visitors' debt regarding accountability. Conversations probed concepts of fairness, guilt, and collective duty in realms of labor, ecology, social activism, and private life. Visitors could participate by entering into contractual procedures for guilt reduction or by refusal of the proposed accountability system. Visitors could calculate others' debt to reduce their own, positioning participation as a pyramid scheme.

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