During the Borderland Residency, Anne Schülke will work in the studio of the PROJEKTRAUM KRANENBURG, located in the house where Joseph Beuys lived temporarily in the 1950s. This coincidence prompts her to initiate a public discussion group that questions the enduring dominance of Beuys’s legacy in the discourse on participatory and socially engaged art, and critically reflects on the ideological continuities and mythologies that continue to shape the field.

In the studio, Schülke will develop a new performance for the camera based on mirrored movement sequences, performed by herself and a second person, both wearing full-body suits. She plans to invite a school class to participate in a workshop focused on mimicry as a possible tool for developing empathy. In conversations with scholars from the neighbouring Radboud University Nijmegen, she will accompany these processes. The resulting material will be presented in the PROJEKTRAUM KRANENBURG and in public spaces in Kranenburg.