transmediale 2019: First Program Details
transmediale is pleased to announce the first program details of transmediale 2019 which will take place from 31 January to 3 February 2019 at Haus der Kulturen der Welt.
Information on the thematic background can be found here.
During the festival days, Shaka McGlotten will deal with a networked experience of love, in which they interweave personal experiences with theoretical engagement and network cultures through feminism, queer studies, and non-dual Tantra in a performative keynote. Ben Anderson and Rebecca Coleman meet in a keynote conversation and discuss, among other things, forms of boredom emerging in precarious times, infrastructures of feeling, and the politics of the present.
In an installation environment designed by the artist and designer Ebba Fransén Waldhör, we present performances such as Rory Pilgrim’s Software Garden, a work that bridges Kabuki theater, pop concert, and the political space of action. Corporation of People’s Situations (COPS) deals with the common and asks how current global and local coherences can be addressed and experienced sensually.
At transmediale 2019 we will present the German premiere of the film Under These Words (Solidarity Athens 2016) by Robin Vanbesien, complemented by a conversation between Vanbesien and activist and researcher Christos Giovanopoulos, moderated by Brigitta Kuster. The film embarks on a journey through Athens in search of stories about the city’s various grassroots solidarity movements. Filipa César and Louis Henderson’s Sunstone, which traces the technological and cultural heritage of the Fresnel lens as a knowledge technology, will also be shown. In Mykola Ridnyi’s film No! No! No!, the protagonists from Ukrainian Kharkiv experience their early 20s as they coincide with the outbreak of war in the neighboring region of Donbass. Interweaving fictional and documentary elements, Liza Johnson’s In the Air portrays a place that has been suffering from an economic crisis for decades, where a circus school becomes a site of agency in a deindustrialized world.
In one of the panels at the upcoming festival edition, Caroline Sinders, Ramon Amaro, Claudio Agosti, and Ariana Dongus examine the role of machine learning in the patrolling of collective emotions and the manipulation of public opinions. In another, Hadi Al-Khatib (Syrian Archive), Adam Harvey (VFRAME), Winnie Soon, Doreen Mende, and Mihaela Brebenel explore the affective power of circulating images of memory or evidence in the context of building archives for human rights investigation and transnational solidarity. Kyriaki Goni, Asia Bazdyrieva and Solveig Suess (Geocinema), and Jussi Parikka deal with technological infrastructures that significantly influence how geographical territories are seen, felt, and perceived. |