Vorspiel is an initiative by transmediale and CTM Festival that aims to showcase the richness and diversity of Berlin's independent project spaces and artist initiatives active in music and sound, visual, and media arts, as well as connected hybrid fields. This year it will take place 19 January – 4 February 2024.
Throughout the last years, Vorspiel has helped strengthen an independent city-wide artistic network, aiming to ignite critical discourse on art, technology, politics, and identity, and connect different genres and practices to create space for exchange and reflection. The concentration of multiple cultural agents and initiatives with diverse approaches is the basis of Vorspiel and an important and rich setting to kick off transmediale and CTM festivals.
This open call is aimed at independent project spaces, platforms, initiatives, curators, and artists based in Berlin who wish to propose an event or activity within Vorspiel. Installations, performances, presentations, concerts, and other formats dedicated to digital art & culture and experimental music and sound are central to the programme. The two-week event series will start a week before CTM festival on 19 January 2024 and then continue parallel to transmediale and CTM festivals. Production and organization costs associated with Vorspiel events must be covered by the participating organizers. transmediale and CTM will coordinate communication and promotion of the programme, including a dedicated Vorspiel website, print materials, and social media.
This upcoming year our main goal will be to focus back onto the original core concept of Vorspiel: directing attention to Berlin’s myriad artistic communities, spaces, and endeavours. We will strengthen our communications efforts, and instead of producing a centralised opening night, participants are encouraged to coordinate their various event openings with the first day of Vorspiel 2024.
Timeline
Application deadline: 9 November 2023
Selected initiatives notified: mid – November 2023
Vorspiel runs: 19 January – 4 February 2024
CTM Festival runs: 26 January – 4 February 2024
transmediale runs: 31 January –4 February 2024