The dance was very frenetic, lively rattling, ringing, rolling, twisted, and lasted a long time - this was the title of dOCUMENTA (13). This documenta had no concept, was not an exhibition, but rather a state of mind, claimed the artistic director Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev. Instead, it articulated itself as a confusing, unharmonious choreography that transcended academic text production. How can art studies, mediation, and individual visitors deal with this challenge? Tim Pickartz emphasizes the equality of curatorial, mediating, and artistic discourses in his dense description, which emerged from extensive field research, and avoids reducing the complex structure to a few keywords. Thus, the study also offers approaches for dealing with exhibitions in general.