Transmediale 2013
dal 27/1/2013 al 2/2/2013
Segnalato da
27/1/2013
Transmediale 2013
Haus der Kulturen der Welt - HKW, Berlin
BWPWAP - Back When Pluto Was a Planet. The demotion of Pluto to 'dwarf planet' status is used as a metaphor for the constant shifting of technology and knowledge paradigms that drive the creation of new cultural imaginaries. For the 26th edition the Festival hosts exhibitions, performances, film screenings, conferences and workshops.
Back When
Mobile phones were still dumb. Letters travelled by pneumatic air. And Tweeting was mainly
done by birds. You were calling up Bulletin Board Systems. World economy believed in itself.
Only schools were using Facebook. We had nine planets.
Pluto Was a Planet
For its 26th edition, transmediale – Berlin's festival for art and digital culture, boldly goes
BWPWAP, Back When Pluto Was a Planet. On the 29th of January to the 3rd of February 2013,
with the programme lasting one Pluto Day, the Haus der Kulturen der Welt will host exhibitions,
performances, film screenings, conferences, and workshops.
True to transmediale’s ideal of integrating theory and practice, international thinkers and
practitioners in the field of art, culture and media, will explore new ways to engage with the
histories, practices, and futures of familiar objects that have been declared somewhat obsolete.
The demotion of Pluto to “dwarf planet” status will be used as a metaphor for the constant
shifting of technology and knowledge paradigms that drive the creation of new cultural
imaginaries. The festival will demonstrate how a moment of crisis in classification may be
appropriated as a canvas of opportunity.
Throughout the geography of the HKW, visitors will be able to interact with Octo, a reenactment
of Berlin’s Rohrpost pneumatic mail delivery system, which will serve as a satirical commentary
on social networking. Fusing an old-school bureaucracy with the age of data-mining, watchful
“moderators” will document users’ private experiences in public interactive spaces.
Three conceptually connected but independently effective exhibitions will be presented under
The Miseducation of Anya Major. Included are works of generative artist Sonia Sheridan, the
Tools of Distorted Creativity group exhibit, and an Evil Media Distribution Centre that offers to
misuse familiar objects brought about by the artists Graham Harwood and Matsuko Yokokoji
known as YoHa.
Conference keynotes and panels, will feed discussions of the four BWPWAP threads: Networks,
Users, Paper, and Desire, questioning their shifting role in society. Speakers will include
philosopher and classification specialist Ian Hacking, historian of science Lorraine Daston, and
astronomist Michael Brown – responsible for the demotion of Pluto’s planetary status.
Two world premieres will accompany keynotes, and include British “avant-retard” artist People
Like Us’ with Consequences (One Thing Leads To Another), and cross gender artist Diane Torr’s
new stage show that confronts identity and classification stereotypes.
The Everything but the Planets film programme will include screenings like Eija-Liisa Ahtila’s
contemporary take on The Annunciation, which begs the audience into experiencing the
unfamiliar in the familiar, and Turner Prize candidate Elizabeth Price’s User Group Disco.
Partners of transmediale, CTM – Festival for Adventurous Music and Arts, will simultaneously
present The Golden Age themed music week at independent venues, exploring the (over-)
abundance of music in the modern world and its consequences for individuals, aesthetics,
politics and economy.
Early bird tickets are now on sale, and accreditation applications for press and professionals are
available through the 15th of January, 2013. You can now download our Press Kit containing
further information about this year's theme, the festival in general and the biographies of the
curators. A detailed programme will be released in December.
More information about our all-year activity in the form of the reSource platform and residency, a
history debriefing, or our Archive content is available online.
transmediale is funded as a cultural institution of excellence by Kulturstiftung des Bundes.
The complete programme is on the website
Contact: Maria Mouk
press@transmediale.de
http://www.transmediale.de/de/bwpwap
030 24749793
Press Conference & Preview: 28.01.2013- 11:00- Haus Der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin
Opening: 29.1. 19 h
Haus der Kulturen der Welt
John-Foster-Dulles-Allee 10 - 10557 Berlin
Exhibition
Tue 29.1. 17:00 – 23:00
Wed 30.1. - Sun 3.2. 10:00 – 22:00
Mon 28.1.: Haus der Kulturen der Welt, 10:00 – 11:00
Tue 29.1.: Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Infocounter 17:30 – 23:00
Wed 30.1. - Sun 3.2.: Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Infocounter 10:00 – 21:00
Admission: 25 € (Day ticket) up to 170 € (Festival ticket plus admission to CTM – Festival for Adventurous Music & Arts)