BURN OUT is an ongoing artistic project (since 2023) combining sculpture, augmented reality, and lecture-based and ritualistic performances. Taking burnout literally, the work explores the transformative potential of fire through practices of burning, purification, and cleansing.

Through augmented reality, burning text fragments from the performance are mapped onto sculptures, transforming them into temporary monuments. Viewers must physically move around the objects to read the text.

In another performative iteration, the artist swings an incense burner around her body, wearing boxing hand wraps and athletic shoes. Accompanied by a sound composition by Robert Bruce culminating in a trance-like techno beat, the repetitive movement evokes physical endurance and exhaustion, drawing parallels between underground techno culture and religious rituals.

The work examines late-capitalist systems that treat humans and nature as inexhaustible resources. Burnout is reimagined as a protective response to a dysfunctional system: a fuse that burns out to prevent collapse, or an explosive force that brings the system down.

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Format: Sculpture / Augmented Reality / Performance
Materials: Plexiglas and Steel
Duration: approx. 12 min
Year of production: 2023/24
Concept & Artistic Direction: Lisa Kaschubat

Selected Presentations:
AUS DER ASCHE groupshow, artburst Berlin 2025
Won`t You Get Your Big Machine, exhibition by the Gift Collective at SPOILER AKTIONSHAUS, 2023