Wet Games — Exhibition view, Haus am Lützowplatz, Berlin, 2026
Wet Games | 2024-2026 | Participatory objects & video-performances
Wet Games explores the shifting roles between victim and bully within public and private relationships, particularly in queer and minority communities. By drawing on Akkel's experiences, the work reflects on how discriminatory power dynamics are internalized and reproduced.
The audience activates the video performances through interaction with custom-made consoles, which hint at the hidden pleasures of both victimhood and inflicting harm.
The forms of the consoles embody the tension between public exposure and private desire
Wet Games — Exhibition view, Haus am Lützowplatz, Berlin, 2026
Wet Games — Console I — Exhibition view, Haus am Lützowplatz, Berlin, 2026
Console I provides a concealed space for a single audience member. The video-performance game is activated using a joystick and a button.
Wet Games — Console III — Exhibition view, Haus am Lützowplatz, Berlin, 2026
Wet Games / Console III— Video performance trailer, 2024
Console III requires two audience participants to operate the video performance and to inflict harm. When both press the yellow buttons on either side, a glass plate shatters over Akkel’s naked body.
With Console II, the audience has no control over the video performance, in which Akkel compares broken glass from Console III’s performance to the camera as an act of harm. The video is shown above the audience.
Wet Games — Console II— Exhibition view, Haus am Lützowplatz, Berlin, 2026
Wet Games / Console II — Video performance trailer, 2024
Wet Games — Collages— Exhibition view, Haus am Lützowplatz, Berlin, 2026
The ongoing collages poetically draw on Akkel’s personal experiences, memories, and emotions, encased in A1-sized plexiglass plates. Click the thumbnails below to view the collages in detail.
