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Exploring the horror of content, the upcoming festival questions how logics of content production determine and frustrate our relations to technology. The 37th edition of transmediale challenges the allure of unusable politics that spawn from cycles of consumption and distraction.
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A three-day performance, conversation, screening, and exhibition programme features artists, thinkers, and practitioners to explore how language, relations, and political possibility become artifice through 100%, 24/7 access to content. Opening on January 31 at silent green, transmediale 2024 – you’re doing amazing sweetie – investigates the horror of content and its unusable politics. Inspired by the reality of reality tv, two seasons of day and night transmediale drama take place at silent green, followed by a one-day Reunion at Haus der Kulturen der Welt.
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Distraction, once a consequence, has become central to our algorithm-mediated realities – shaping language, identities, behaviour, and action. Scrolling, clicking, and swiping through loops of content has produced endless distraction, transforming bathrooms into stages, bedrooms into studios, and life into content.
Questioning how content serves as both a framework and a barrier for our interactions, this is perfect, perfect, perfect dissects the hyperbolic, sensational, and anxiety-inducing visuals, narratives, and atmosphere of content. Bringing together 11 artists, the group exhibition confronts how stories are crafted, commerce is lived, and the never-ending trail of distraction – do we consume content or does content consume us?
this is perfect, perfect, perfect will be on view at Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien from January 31 - April 14, 2024. A public programme around the exhibition will be announced shortly. Entry is free of charge.
In Uncensored Lilac , Bassam Issa Al-Sabah and Jennifer Mehigan question the ways climate change affects and alters social and environmental relations. Transforming transmediale studio into a fantasy world, the duo’s exhibition follows a group of goddesses, who may or may not be aliens, and their assembly of familiars, pets, servants, and technologies. Set in a dreamlike hallucinatory landscape that mutates between ornate embellishments and its original form, the landscape, and the assembly have been invaded and altered by a toxic species, making them nurturing but venomous.
*Uncensored Lilac will be on view at transmediale studio in silent green Kulturquartier from January 26 - April 14, 2024. Entry is free of charge. Please note the opening hours in March and April: Friday to Sunday only.
transmediale and CTM festival are once again collaborating on programmes for both festivals. This year's joint programme includes the 10-day installation Oceanic Refractions and the co-curated Berghain Night featuring Gash Collective. Additionally, CTM celebrates their 25th anniversary.
Vorspiel
Taking place from 19 January to 4 February 2024, Vorspiel is an initiative by transmediale and CTM Festival that aims to showcase the richness and diversity of Berlin's independent project spaces and artists in a pre-festival programme.
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