A fat person goes to the doctor, 2022/2023

Performance and video, 11min

Weight Stigma Conference, Humboldt University Berlin (DE)

Artscape Gibraltar Point, Toronto Island (CA)

Brick 15, Vienna (AT)

Fat people regularly experience stigma and discrimination when visiting medical facilities. In her lecture performance, Veronika Merklein presents collected stories of fat people in a suffocatingly humorous way.

The performance is adapted to a lecture format with Powerpoint presentation. The video is designed as a split screen and is intended to be shown on two screens in exhibition format.

Here is a cell phone documentation of the live performance from the Weight Stigma Conference at the Humboldt University Berlin in 2022: