DIPLOM 'Disorder' // Mirjam Bakal

The performance-installation unfolds at the intersection of ritual, care, identity, and states of overwhelm. Disorder frames chaos not as the absence of order, but as the coexistence of multiple temporalities, social roles, cultural strata, and systems of expectation that intersect, collide, and continually reshape one another. Disorder thus emerges not as rupture, but as a condition of simultaneity—a space where complexity resists simplification and identity remains fluid. The work was filmed without institutional authorization within the Humboldt Forum in Berlin. This gesture constitutes a deliberate artistic position: that artistic expression within institutional and museum spaces should not depend upon prior authorization. In this sense, the unauthorized act is not merely a transgression of protocol, but an inquiry into the politics of access, authorship, and the ownership of cultural space. What, then, is art permitted to do today—and what remains prohibited? Where are the limits of artistic freedom, and who determines them?

Let me be your disorder.