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Expanding the Meaning of Home: KDV Dance Ensemble at Funkhaus
by Johanna Hardt // Feb. 6, 2020
Low monotone drone sounds lure the crowd in. People start filling up the seats around me, while I’m starting to ease into the sonic ambience of sustained low frequencies…[read on]
Self-Pleasure: Werner Büttner at Contemporary Fine Arts
by Bárbara Borges de Campos // Feb. 5, 2020
Perusing the catalogue for ‘Wahrheit ist Arbeit’ (Truth is Work) – the formative Werner Büttner, Martin Kippenberger and Albert Oehlen’s 1984 exhibition curated by…[read on]
Impressions from the Boston Festival of Films from Iran
by Sofia Bergmann // Feb. 4, 2020
When one sees Iran through its sweeping landscapes or its rural agrarian towns, it is easy to forget this is the same country flooding our news feeds with everything from…[read on]
Questioning the Social Body: Transmediale’s ‘The Eternal Network’ Exhibition at HKW
by Denisa Tomkova // Feb. 3, 2020
This year’s transmediale exhibition ‘The Eternal Network’ calls for more intimate relationships within the network, and for regaining more control, away from centralized digital…[read on]
A Philosophy of Visualisation: An Interview with Akinbode Akinbiyi
Interview by Denisa Tomkova // Jan. 31, 2020
Interview with street-photographer Akinbode Akinbiyi about his exhibition ‘Six Songs, Swirling Gracefully in the Taut Air’ which opens on February 7th at Gropius Bau in Berlin. The way Akinibiyi describes…[read on]
Companionship Formed in Cyberspace: An Interview with Shengze Zhu
Article by Denisa Tomkova // Jan. 29, 2020
We talked to documentary director by Shengze Zhu about her feature film Present.Perfect from 2019, which engages with a critical debate on live-streaming in China in recent years,…[read on]
Foam and Content: Caterina Gobbi at Zönotéka
by Rositza Alexandrova // Jan. 28, 2020
You would have seen them. The multitude of tiny hats, the sombre homogeneous haloes atop identikit outsized attire – squadrons of sonic savants and ferociously…[read on]
Uncertain Future: Hito Steyerl at n.b.k.
by Bárbara Borges de Campos // Jan. 21, 2020
A mesmerizing, soft AI voice greets you as you come into n.b.k. – “if you use the extract it will poison autocrats” – over a psychedelic series of kaleidoscopic flowers…[read on]
Transmediale Opens 2020 Festival ‘End to End’
Jan. 20, 2020
Between 28 January and 1 March, 2020, already 33rd edition of transmediale, the annual Berlin-based festival of intermedia, music, film and digital culture will take place at Haus der Kulturen der Welt…[read on]
Defying Sex Laws: ‘Around the World: An Evening of Lavani’ at Sophiensaele
by Sumugan Sivanesan // Jan. 17, 2020
Savitri Medhatul from Kali Billi Productions appears on stage before the full house of Sophiensaele’s Hochzeitssaal. “Namaste!”, she beams and the not-exclusively-white audience…[read on]
KDV Dance Ensemble Presents ‘Las Casas Invisibles’ at Funkhaus Berlin
Article by Bárbara Borges de Campos// Jan. 17, 2020
‘Las Casas Invisibles’ (Invisible Houses) is the first performance by KDV Dance Ensemble, premiering February 1st at Funkhaus Berlin. KDV Dance Ensemble is a multidisciplinary dance…[read on]