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Participating artists:
Clemens von Wedemeyer

Venue:
Betonhalle
silent green
Gerichtstrasse 35
13347 Berlin/Wedding

Partner:
Production commissioned / supported by: Riga Biennial, Kunstmuseum Luzern

Synopsis: Simulated life began in the movies and computer games, but is influencing many fields today. In architecture, city planning, traffic navigation, and market and trade predictions, virtual scenarios of human behavior change the way we live. Clemens von Wedemeyer's new video installation Transformation Scenario (2018) creates a speculative narration on the impact of emulated crowd behaviour in society.

Voices: Megan Gay, Ian Dickinson
Editor: Janina Herhoffer, Clemens v. Wedemeyer
Dramaturgical advice: Alex Scrimgeour, Janina Herhoffer
Sound design: Jochen Jezussek

Within the program of 14th Forum Expanded: ANTIKINO (The Siren’s Echo Chamber), 69th Berlinale Filmfestival

The silent green Kulturquartier will open a new Berlin exhibition venue and the Forum Expanded group exhibition, which has been taking place annually since 2006, will be the inaugural event. The 1600 square meter Betonhalle on the grounds of the former Wedding crematorium will soon serve primarily as a venue for film and video exhibitions, as well as for concerts and conferences. This year’s theme “ANTIKINO (The Siren’s Echo Chamber)” questions contemporary systems of valorisation in cinema, and proposes to discuss the changed relationship between moving images and lived life. A mythological theme – the singing sirens and the Odyssey - is transposed into a present defined by experiences of migration, displacement and the shadows of colonial history as much as by the affective feedback loops in social media. ANTIKINO explores multiple ways of leaving the echo chamber.