12.-22.06.2025

On Orientation / Installation

The “On Orientation” project was a temporary installation in the sculpture garden during the “10 YEARS – 10 DAYS! Kunsthaus Dahlem Anniversary Festival”. Through a sculpture pointing to historical urban spots related to the former atelier of state artist Arno Breker under the National Socialist regime in the 1930s and 1940s, the installation allowed visitors to explore matters of critical orientation.

14.06. / 21.30 Uhr

Atmospheric Algorithms / Performance

In the electronic age of AI, ChatGPT and IoT, information forms a new kind of environment and something like a digital atmosphere around us. The performance explored how internal and external characteristics create a mood for humans, and how humans both shape this atmosphere themselves and are shaped by it. In this context, the means of artistic research were used to orientate in the algorithmic structure of existing or newly emerging atmospheres and to understand how individual atmospheres are constructed and encoded. Which parameters shape the atmospheres and which systems can simulate the senses or alter perception? And can this lead to political consciousness?

WITH: Black Pearl, Carolin Hartman, Giulia Bencina (Dance); Philipp Johann Thimm / Apparat (Music)