HKW Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien transmediale studio Berghain Embassy of Canada The festival unfolds as Season 1 and 2 at silent green and concludes in the Reunion at HKW.
The first two days of the festival – Season 1 and Season 2 – are dedicated to performances and conversations operating as confessionals, exploring the politics of erasure and censorship, girl economies, infrastructures of distraction, and the tensions between the real/unreal of digital authoritarianism. Operating through the gestures and tactics of performance, the Betonhalle of silent green will be transformed into an immersive space of performance, interventions, conversation, and film screenings .
Featuring Aleena Chia, Alex Quicho, Anna Engelhardt, bela and Kloxii Li, Clea Bourne, Eva Papamargariti, Holly Childs and Gediminas Žygus, Joel Sherwood Spring, Mario Santanilla, Rachel O'Dwyer, and Winnie Soon, with more to be announced.
Relocating to Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW) on the third day the conclusion and reunion of the festival takes place. The day-long reunion presents a series of conversations and performances, alongside screenings and conversations with filmmakers that explore the destruction of interconnected infrastructures and platforms, the ways interfaces restrict political possibilities, anti-fascist tactics, and the artifice of language. Presented in HKW's foyer, Mary Maggic's installation FASTER, HIGHER, STRONGER is on view and will be activated throughout the day. The festival will be closing with a concert by Farida Amadou.
Featuring dubravka sekulić, Georgina Voss, Helen Pritchard, Luiza Prado, Silvio Lorusso, and Svitlana Matviyenko, with more to be announced.
Marking the Berlin debut of her new solo, the concert by self-taught bass player Farida Amadou together with trumpeter, composer, and DJ Aquiles Navarro mixes electronic sounds with acoustic percussion and drone. The closing concert of this year's festival takes place on Saturday evening at HKW, and will be followed by DJ sets.
This year's Marshall McLuhan Lecture will be given by the Canadian-British journalist and author Cory Doctorow . In his talk, Doctorow will discuss the enshittification of the internet – an inevitable result of policy choices made in living memory.
29. Jan 2024
Marshall McLuhan Lecture 2024, Embassy of Canada in Berlin
31. Jan 2024
Festival Opening Night, silent green Kulturquartier
1. – 2. Feb 2024
Festival – Season 1 and 2, silent green Kulturquartier
3. Feb 2024
Festival – Reunion, Haus der Kulturen der Welt
Exhibitions:
31. Jan – 14. April 2024
Exhibition this is perfect, perfect, perfect, Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien
26. Jan – 14. April 2024
Exhibition Uncensored Lilac, transmediale studio in silent green
26. Jan - 4. Feb
tm x CTM Collaboration – Installation: Oceanic Refractions, Kuppelhalle in silent green