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Intervention // Equality in the Music Scene: Inaugural ‘We Make Waves’ Festival Berlin
Article by Diane Barbé in Berlin // Nov. 17, 2017
Is Berlin’s music scene as inclusive as it’s touted to be? In recent years, the under-representation of women, trans, intersex, and queer communities has been loudly decried: on dance floors…[read on]
Intervention // Collective Intelligence: ‘Cosmopolis #1’ at Centre Pompidou
Article by Marta Jecu in Berlin // Nov. 15, 2017
‘Cosmopolis #1’ develops, under the curatorship of Kathryn Weir, a layered platform of creation and transmission of knowledge that incorporates long-term cultural experiments, social actions,…[read on]
Intervention // To Hear Whispers in a Silent Space: ‘Shifting Perspectives’ at ZKR
Article by Jack Radley in Berlin // Nov. 13, 2017
In the transitional period from the German Democratic Republic (GDR) through the reunification era to the present, many sociopolitical changes have occurred in East Germany…[read on]
Intervention // Gaming as Life: An Interview with Tomasz Kobialka
Article by Penny Rafferty in Berlin // Nov. 7, 2017
Tomasz Kobialka’s new video ‘Pearl Diving for Wyrms’ explores intervention inside a contemporary gaming psychosis, but from the point of view of the gaming company rather than the player. A majestic dragon…[read on]
Intervention // The Sound of Sleep: ‘Silent Night’ Concert Series Prague
Article by Nina Prader in Berlin // Oct. 27, 2017
Collective sleep-overs recall pajama parties as a teen or, on the other end of the spectrum, nights of debauchery at a kinky or psychedelic orgy. ‘Silent Night’ is neither. On September 23rd, this sleep concert series…[read on]
Intervention // Radical Networks and Weise7 Studio: An Interview with Sarah Grant
Article by Nicolas Hausdorf in Berlin // Oct. 20, 2017
It is not easy to make an “intervention” in a world so thoroughly organised around the sophisticated exploitation of human attention economies as ours. Hence, the term often becomes an inflated notion and buzzword…[read on]
Play // Experimental Performance Art: ‘Animalinside’ at Montag Modus
Article by Beatrix Joyce in Berlin // Oct. 13, 2017
With the launch of its bi-monthly performance series Montag Modus, the Collegium Hungaricum Berlin has quickly become one of Berlin’s most exciting venues for performance art. Hosting an array…[read on]
Play // Dream Journal: An Interview with Jon Rafman
Article by Penny Rafferty in Berlin // Oct. 06, 2017
Shag carpet fills one room at Sprüth Magers in Berlin right now, a waxy plastic is emitted from the darkness and eight ambiguous lounging foam figures recline. Waiting for your own body to slip into them, or…[read on]
Play // Human and Non-Human Hybrids: An Interview with Melanie Bonajo
Article by Ilyn Wong in Berlin // Oct. 03, 2017
I first encountered the work of Dutch artist Melanie Bonajo several years ago in New York, through a series of photographs in which women’s bodies collectively asked questions about resistance,…[read on]
Play // Speaker System: Andrea Crespo at Kraupa-Tuskany Zeidler
Article by Nat Marcus in Berlin // Sep. 28, 2017
Throughout all the varying theories of play in the last 150-odd years, regardless of discourse or discipline, it is often described as a kind of median, an interface by which the mind dialogs with the external world…[read on]
Play // ‘Delicate Instruments of Engagement’: An Interview with Alexandra Pirici
Article by Alison Hugill in Berlin // Sep. 22, 2017
Romanian choreographer Alexandra Pirici has enacted a number of her recent sculptural additions and ongoing actions in Germany over the last year, beginning with her contribution to the 9th Berlin Biennale,…[read on]