transmediale 2019: Partner Program
Vorspiel, transmediale Marshall McLuhan Program, CTM Festival, RUNDFUNK AETERNA X, Study Circle Partner Program
Before the next edition of transmediale opens on 31 January 2019 at Haus der Kulturen der Welt, its partner program will begin on 18 January in the form of the pre-festival program Vorspiel. One week later, partner festival CTM will open before the McLuhan Lecture takes place on 30 January 2019 at the Embassy of Canada. Parallel to transmediale, the project spaces Import Projects, Spektrum, and TIER.space will present their own program reacting to the themes of the Study Circles. During the festival days, Akademie der Künste presents RUNDFUNK AETERNA X – A Radio Opera by Jan-Peter E.R. Sonntag.
Vorspiel
For the eighth time, project spaces, galleries, and cultural institutions from the fields of digital art and culture as well as experimental music and sound art have curated an extended program within the framework of Vorspiel leading up to transmediale and CTM Festival. The pre-festival program, which includes 58 participating venues this time, is supposed to foster common exchange between diverse cultural actors in Berlin and begins on 18 January 2019 at ACUD MACHT NEU; it ends with the festivals on 3 February.
The complete Vorspiel program is available online soon.
Vorspiel Opening: On 18 January 2019, Vorspiel will be opened at ACUD MACHT NEU with an evening program. Details will be published shortly.
ACUD MACHT NEU, Veteranenstraße 21, 10119 Berlin Vorspiel opening: 18 January 2019, 18:00
CTM 2019 – Persistence
transmediale’s partner festival, CTM, is turning 20: The anniversary edition will take place from 25 January to 3 February 2019 at various locations such as Berghain, HAU Hebbel am Ufer, Festsaal Kreuzberg, DAAD, nGbK, and Kunstquartier Bethanien. Under the title Persistence, CTM 2019 explores what it means to resist increasingly polarizing stances and simplistic rhetoric and to cultivate steadfastness instead—through a recognition of diversity, difference, and hybridity while also embracing fluidity, uncertainty, and flux instead of rigidity and dogma. Full music program, exhibitions, discourse, and more via the CTM website.
CTM – Persistence
25 January – 03 February 2019
Various Locations
www.ctm-festival.de
CTM 2019 Exhibition Opening
25 January 2019, 19:00 at Kunstquartier Bethanien
CTM 2019 Opening Concert
26 January 2019, 19:00 at HAU Hebbel am Ufer (HAU 1)
transmediale Marshall McLuhan Program 2019
On 30 January 2019, Jody Berland, Canadian professor in the department of Humanities at York University, Toronto, delivers this year’s McLuhan Lecture at the Embassy of Canada in Berlin, entitled Extending McLuhan’s Posthumanism: Feeling The Techno-Animal Embrace. In this lecture she is placing McLuhan’s definition of media technologies as prostheses that extend our limbs and nervous systems in the context of contemporary posthumanism. Considering that animals (just as media in McLuhan’s thesis) influence the sensory balance and experience of the human body, Berland opens a mediology of the animal through stories and images in order to illuminate essential links between our colonial past and our Anthropocene present.
Additionally, Canadian artist Serena Lee will present and perform her work Kinds of Caves and Wholes and Parts (2017), connecting to the thematics of Berland’s lecture through voice and a collage landscape of carpeted cat trees, office spaces, and a pensive feline inhabitant. Dead matter and living beings both seem to figure as potential feelings still pending between dream and reality.
The lecture will be held in English; please register here.
Please present a valid photo-ID at the door and allow sufficient time for Embassy security.
transmediale Marshall McLuhan Lecture with Jody Berland
Embassy of Canada, Leipziger Platz 17, 10117 Berlin
30 January 2019, 19:30, Doors open 19:00
The transmediale Marshall McLuhan Program is a cooperation between transmediale and the Embassy of Canada in Berlin.
RUNDFUNK AETERNA X
In collaboration with transmediale and CTM, Akademie der Künste opens the installative recomposition of Jan-Peter E.R. Sonntag’s RUNDFUNK AETERNA X – A Radio Opera on 1 February 2019. The symphonic/spatial work, which was commissioned by documenta 14 and broadcasted worldwide in 2017, invites the public to move through a multidimensional space. Instrumental soloists, the sonradiaGrid, an Audion radio circuit, a large diffraction-horn system, a transistor radio as well as antennas and receivers for ELF waves—natural radio—are involved in the space/sound experience. The technique of the apparatus is a constitutive part of the art. It is also the first presentation of the sonradiaGrid, consisting of newly developed acoustic omnidirectional radiators from Sonntag’s lab: N-solab.
RUNDFUNK AETERNA X – A Radio Opera by Jan-Peter E.R. Sonntag is a production of N-solab sponsored by Capital Cultural Fund (Hauptstadtkulturfonds). It has its world premiere as an installation at the Academy of Arts and will be presented in collaboration with CTM and transmediale 2019. The installation version is based on a studio production commissioned by documenta 14 supported by Deutschlandfunk Kultur.
Jan-Peter E.R. Sonntag
Rundfunk Aeterna X – A Radio Opera
Akademie der Künste, Hanseatenweg 10, 10557 Berlin
Opening: 1 February 2019, 19:00
01–07 February 2019, (Fri–Sat 11:00–22:00; Sun–Wed 11:00–19:00)
Further information about the supporting program here.
Study Circle Partner Program
The transmediale Study Circles bring together artists, researchers, and activists in working groups happening before, during, and after transmediale 2019 to address various aspects of the festival theme. The Study Circles take place in association with Import Projects, Spektrum, and TIER.space. After the first meetings, the Berlin-based project spaces present their own program on the themes of the Study Circles parallel to transmediale.
Import Projects
In dialogue with the transmediale Study Circles, Import Projects presents Scaling Connections, encompassing a film screening, performances, and performative lectures. This event series takes its inspiration from explorations into Deep History, which emphasizes trends and processes rather than individuals and events, paying more attention to kinship, genealogy, and developing traditions. It reaches back to the beginning of life itself, into the original molecular soup, fostering surprising connections. Deep History advocates to resurrect the basis of humanity by scaling up from the molecular to the molar without the anthropomorphic bias and in the process decentres humankind’s position. The central question of the event series is how the future development of our brains—as a constitutive element of freedom of choice—could look against the backdrop of a deeper understanding of our history and contemporary humanity’s ever-closer wiring with technologies.
Among the participants are Daniel Keller, Ashiq Khondker, Alanna Lawley, Denisa Lehocká, Warren Neidich, Boris Ondreička, and Valery Vermeulen.
23 January 2019, 19:00–21:00
Pyrite Cluster
27 January 2019, 15:00–20:00
Pizzagate: From Rumor to Delusion & Scoring the Tweet(s)
29 January 2019, 19:00–21:00
Black Holes
Import Projects, Keithstr. 10, 10787 Berlin
www.import-projects.org
01 February 2019, 19:00–21:00
Brain without Organs
Haus der Kulturen der Welt
John-Foster-Dulles-Allee 10, 10557 Berlin
SPEKTRUM
In the exhibition Creating Empathy, Spektrum presents works investigating the relation of the self with the other person and, more generally, humans with other life forms. In neuroscience, empathy is defined as the ability to understand and share someone else’s feelings by means of a mirroring effect provided by special type of neurons—mirror neurons—in both animals and humans. This reflective state of feeling-the-other as a means of sustaining the nature of the relation between beings is affirmed via the (ongoing) evolutionary success of technology. What if artists created approaches to critically expand this mirroring effect between people by using machines? When do tools and knowledge of technology and science become meaningful enough to catalyze social empathy in new cultural and artistic forms? And could it possible to technologically extend this sense of feeling-the-other to non-human creatures or things?
Among the artists are Michael Ang, Theresa Schubert, Scent Club Berlin, Domenico Scjanino, Kyriaki Goni, Jean-Marc Chomaz, and Michela Pelusio.
Creating Empathy
SPEKTRUM, Bürknerstr. 12, 12047 Berlin
30 January – 03 February 2019
https://spektrum.community
The Institute for Endotic Research
Inspired by the Study Circle Affective Infrastructures, The Institute for Endotic Research presents a series of performances and interventions across two evenings under the title Infratekture. The program will explore notions related to the composition of the social body through the invention of its organs, its nourishment, and its textures. This social body is the result of the accumulation of layers of socio-technical conceptualizations, as well as the affective infrastructures that bind them together. The central question connected to it: Where can the fluxes of affect be located when thinking of them as infrastructure?
Among the artists are Luís Berríos-Negrón, Mariechen Danz, Isabel Lewis, Patricia Reed, Daniel Salomon, and Emilija Škarnulytė.
Infratekture
The Institute for Endotic Research,
TIER.space, Donaustraße 84, 12043 Berlin
25 and 26 January 2019
http://theinstituteforendoticresearch.org/
A cooperation between transmediale and Import Projects, Spektrum, and The Institute for Endotic Research. Supported by the Senate Department for Culture and Europe.
transmediale is a project by Kulturprojekte Berlin GmbH at Haus der Kulturen der Welt. The festival has been funded as a cultural institution of excellence by Kulturstiftung des Bundes since 2004. With additional funding by The Federal Agency for Civic Education (Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung/bpb). |
