Taking 1895 classic The Time Machine by H.G. Wells as a departure point, transmediale.10 presents a double bill featuring self_resolution by Berlin-based Andrea Lange and a world première of La Chambre Des Machines by Montreal duo Martin Messier & Nicolas Bernier.
Berlin-based musician and composer Lord Cry Cry presents a mixture of music regarded as futuristic when first released, alongside contemporary music which also anticipates the future – a special of mixes covering genres like avant-garde jazz, classical, electronic, reggae and dubstep.
POWEr by artificiel is a performance in which the only source for sounds and visuals is a Tesla coil, invented by Nikola Tesla in 1891. The piece is an impressive example of how atemporality, physical energy and digital technology create complex new performative phenomena.
In Elektrolab, the first of two performances which explore atemporal electrical inventions, a battery is created and dissected live on stage by Rachida Ziani & Dewi de Vree. Marvel at the audiovisual spectacle of energy being generated live...
cl_loop is an audio improvisation based on the manipulation of an electromagnetic field. For this performance Pe Lang utilises three small battery-powered devices that contain two coils whose functions are contradictory; one acts as a sensor and the other as an electromagnet.
transmediale.10 and CTM.10 are delighted to present two stunning works by some of the most important audiovisual performance artists today, that both address the materiality of moving images. Ryoji Ikeda, one of the world's finest electronic artists will perform his live set test pattern, and Jürgen Reble & Thomas Köner will mesmerise our sense with their live piece Materia Obscura.
The world première of Landschaft No.2 – an interpretation of Matthias Fritsch’s work Landschaft – will feature instrumentation from Shingo Inao and Marco Brosolo.
The Long Conversion is a world première especially crafted for transmediale.10 by transmediale Award nominees Sosolimited. The piece exists alongside the extended experimental discussion Futurity Long Conversation happening simultaneously in the HKW Auditorium.
Increasing social inequality, aggravation of living standards, short-sighted environmental policy and the violation of human rights are all facts pointing to the increasing extremes of the conditions of life. These conditions are not cultural dysfunctions, but are fundamentally connected to the processes of global capital to systematically exploit the environment.