In July, transmediale will present two new exhibitions: a large-scale video work by Korean artist Yang Ah Ham, and the second part of the film programme remote. response, request. II. From 28 May, the transmediale studio is open for remote. response. request. I.
For nine days, transmediale will be showing the video installation, Undefined Panorama 3.1 by Yang Ah Ham in the Cupola of silent green. This expansive piece is reminiscent of Hieronymus Bosch's The Haywain and runs on a 12-metre panorama screen. As part of transmediale 2021–22, the work is being shown for the first time.
Since the 1990s, Yang Ah Ham’s work has explored the development of alternative socio-political systems. In this latest work, Yang Ah Ham draws attention to how societal infrastructures and services protect those in power and exacerbate conflict and precarity. Raising questions about the abolition of these hegemonic structures, the large-scale projection opens up conversation around possibilities of new societal systems based on solidarity and care.
Undefined Panorama 3.1 runs from 10 to 18 July in the Cupola, silent green Kulturquartier. Further information can be found on the transmediale website .
The second part of this year's transmediale film programme remote. response. request. opens on 10 July with the screening of video works by Elsa Brès and Maud Craigie.
In notes for les sanglières, Elsa Brès creates a non-human world with the help of an algorithmically controlled pack of wildboars, thus exposing the fallacy of anthropocentrism. The work is commissioned by transmediale and will be on view for the first time. In Indications of guilt, pt. 1, Maud Craigie examines the structures of US police interrogations and their relationship to fictional representations of law enforcement in films and series.
The films, like their accompanying elements in remote. response. request. II. , question concepts of reality in Western systems; systems such as money, private property, the rule of law, and borders, and thus suggest different ways of (re)shaping the world as a kind of refusal.
On 28 May the transmediale studio reopened with remote. response. request. I., the first installment of the film programme. Three film works by Sam Tam Ham, Rhea Storr and Phanuel Antwi, commissioned by transmediale, are presented, dedicated to the radical imagination.
remote. response. request. I. will be on view at the transmediale studio until 20 June. Detailed information about visiting the studio can be found online .
April Release – online since 26 April
Featuring Aaron Benanav, Gargi Bhattacharyya, Rachel O'Dwyer, and Suji Yan with Silvio Lorusso; Sofia Caesar, Chus Martínez, and André Lepecki with Marco De Mutiis; Santa France, and Caroline Bassett.
May Release – online from 26 May
Featuring Katharina Nocun, Billion Lee and Nishant Shah with Tsao Yidi, Bassem Saad, Simone C Niquille and Seeta Peña Gangadharan.
transmediale is funded as a cultural institution of excellence by the Kulturstiftung des Bundes (German Federal Cultural Foundation) since 2004. A full list of partners and supporters can be found here.