Fatigue Assessment Chair           2026 

Biennial of Care︎︎︎

Drawing from Health Communism (Adler-Bolton, B., & Vierkant, A., 2025) and its critique of the division between productive and “surplus” bodies (worker/surplus binary), Nadja Kracunovic asks what happens when the body can no longer function as reliable infrastructure for cultural production. Fatigue appears here not as a private condition (diagnosis), but as a residue of labour: something the body continues to carry after the event.

A mobile, tarot-like lexicon of twelve notebooks circulates through Chemnitz among artists, organisers, volunteers and other cultural workers connected to Chemnitz 2025. Rather than documenting whether the project was successful, it asks what remains: who carries the legacy, who performs the aftercare, who gets to recover, where limits appear, and when a body is allowed to say enough. At its centre is a chair — both a necessary support and a counter-infrastructure. Nadja carries it through the city to rest, visiting different cultural events, while inviting others to draw the chair they wish had existed during cultural production. The collected traces become material for a performative speech - A Brief (Oral) History of Health Under Capitalism -  where Kracunovic reactivates the lexicons, asking the visitors of Lokomov how to continue after all of this.