A red cocktail glass, clutched by long nails, emerges in the dim light of the stage. This image beckons the audience into a grotesque poetry: subjoyride.
Berlin-based choreographer Boglárka Börcsök and artist Andreas Bolm engage in a dialogue with the eccentric legacy of Dada’s rebellious baroness, Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven (1874–1927), in this new performance. Through sound, gesture, music, and body, the Baroness’s multifaceted persona is reimagined as a cosmos oscillating between the abject and the grotesque.
The performance also brings to the stage one of art history’s most contentious speculations: could Marcel Duchamp’s iconic Fountain (1917)—the upturned urinal—actually be the work of the Baroness? Börcsök and Bolm playfully reframe this question, exposing the mechanisms of the hegemonic art canon.
subjoyride moves the audience beyond mere spectatorship, inviting them into an encounter with the forgotten bodies and voices lingering on the margins of art history.
🔗 Apartment No:26 Note: The canon is often written for the loudest voice. subjoyride inverts this voice—much like a urinal transformed into a whisper that challenges art history.
📍 Sophiensæle (Hochzeitssaal)
📅 September 11–13, 2025
