12.-22.06.2025
Interactive sculpture by Jenny Brockmann in the sculpture garden of Kunsthaus Dahlem

14.06.2025, 9.30 pm
Performance “Atmospheric Algorithms” by Jenny Brockmann
with dancers: Black Pearl, Carolin Hartman and Giulia Bencina, and music by Philipp Johann Thimm (Apparat)

The project “On Orientation” consists of an installation in the sculpture garden of Kunsthaus Dahlem for the period of the “10 Years – 10 Days!” festival, June 12 till June 22, 2025. The installation will allow visitors to explore through the sculpture that points to historical urban spots related to the former Atelier of Arno Breker in the 1930s and 1940s, matters of orientation.

On June 14 the performance “Atmospheric Algorithms” with three dancers will take place in the main hall of the former Breker Atelier. “Atmospheric Algorithms” relates to the situation in the electronic age of AI, ChatGPT and IoT, that information is becoming a new kind of environment, forming something like an atmosphere around us. It explores what an atmosphere means, how internal and external characteristics create a mood for humans, and how humans both shape this atmosphere themselves and are shaped by it when interacting with the human and non-human. In this context, the means of artistic research are 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? How does a political consciousness arise from it?

With the friendly support of Berlin University of the Arts (UdK)