Berlin, 29 September 2021
transmediale 2021–22 for refusal
transmediale 2021–22 culminates in January in a month-long exhibition at Berlin’s Akademie der Künste, and a two-day symposium at Haus der Kulturen der Welt.
Throughout transmediale 2021–22, the festival focused on building sustainable relationships through the creation of new artists’ residencies, institutional partnerships and networks. The festival has taken place across multiple venues and platforms, including its first public space, transmediale studio, and its curatorial online platform Almanac for Refusal . The Almanac is a public archive and a space for commissioned artworks, for artists’ film, audio, talks and essays. Steered by a new artistic director, Nora O Murchú, the festival 2021–22 was reconfigured from its usual format to adapt to the transformed realities of living in a pandemic.
The concluding programme of transmediale 2021–22 will build on the festival’s theme for refusal, moving away from refusal as a generative space, towards a pragmatic confrontation with its impossibilities.
Exhibition
26 Jan–18 Feb 2022
Akademie der Künste, Hanseatenweg
The closing exhibition of the year-long edition – abandon all hope ye who enter here – references Dante’s Inferno and explores technological hellscapes created by computational logics and processes of extraction. For the first time in 15 years returning to the venue, the exhibition takes place at Akademie der Künste.
28 & 29 Jan 2022
Haus der Kulturen der Welt
Two days of cross-disciplinary talks, panels, performances, and screenings, the symposium explores refusal through the axioms of belief and compromise.
More information on the full programme will be announced soon. The symposium passes will be available starting November 1st in the transmediale ticket shop.
September Release – online since 21. September
Featuring Lamin Fofana, Ben Evans James, KMRU, Sarvenaz Mostofey, Moor Mother, Rebecca Smith, and MengXuan Sun.
transmediale is funded as a cultural institution of excellence by the Kulturstiftung des Bundes (German Federal Cultural Foundation) since 2004.