SICK OF FEAR
A new performance by Alexey Kokhanov
Sternschuppen Pavilion / Volksbühne
18-28 Sept 2025
Sick of Fear is a video/sound installation and a live performance.
At 16:00 each day of exhibition, Alexey begins a three-hour sound and voice performance, during which he ‘contaminates’ and ‘purifies’ the windows of the Sternschuppen Pavilion, over and over again.
At 19:00, Alexey begins a 40-minute voice performance that explores Alexey’s memories of illness in his family, as well as his own personal experience of receiving a life-changing diagnosis. By assembling sounds of cleaning windows, extended vocal techniques and original texts Alexey creates an original composition, a song about fear of being infected.
In Sick of Fear, Alexey explores fear at the level of the ‘in-depth’ body. The usually unseen inner organs, tissues and liquids are rendered visible. The body becomes an object, and the Pavilion turns into an extension of the body — an organ or a cell. Both appear vulnerable to contagion. In this way, the stigma of illness is confronted, and the causes of fear, which often remain hidden, are brought to the surface.
18.09 18:00 Opening 19:00 Performance
19.09 16 – 20, 19:00 Performance
20.09 16 – 20, 19:00 Performance
21.09 16 – 20, 19:00 Performance
25.09 16 – 20, 19:00 Performance
26.09 16 – 20, 19:00 Performance
27.09 16 – 20, 19:00 Performance
28.09 16 – 20, 19:00 Performance