The Fountain of Liver Tea serves as the catalyst to this one day performance: a device created from a hacked washing machine that automatically produces a liquid herbal infusion and subsequently spits it onto the heated rocks
for aromatic steam and into the visitor’s cups for simultaneous ingestion. The dried herbs that spin into the washing machine were hand-picked on the terrain of the Bärenzwinger, and contain a controlled scale of various healing properties. The heated stones were also formerly part of the historical architecture and surrounding pavement. The effect of human bodies and brick walls drenched in this alchemical steam with the sound of sequential spinning cycles will cathartically sweat out the melancholia that still ruminates in what was literally a bear prison in the center of the German capital between 1937 and 2015.