Fronte Vacuo, “Humane Methods : [ΣXHALE]”
▷ frontevacuo.com/works/exhale/
▶︎ Production, project management, financial administration for series of performances, presented in 2022 at: CTM Festival, Radialsystem Berlin / Tanzhaus NRW, Düsseldorf / Volkstheater (Volx), Wien
[ΣXHALE] is a rhizome of the Humane Methods project, an ongoing reflection on violence in algorithmic societies.
Humane Methods (2019-ad infinitum) is – and will be – the only project of the performance group Fronte Vacuo. It is the saga of a broken, future society seeking how to respectfully coexist with nature and technology, oscillating between new forms of algorithmic violence and posthuman empathy. The stories of this fictional society become stage productions, street performances and hybrid live installations where audiences live hyper-real science fiction scenarios. By experiencing the world of Humane Methods, audiences are brought to reflect on empathy, violence, communal action and power structures in ways that are rewarding and challenging, sensorially charged and evocative.
In Humane Methods, dancetheatre, bioart, interactive music, living scenography, and AI technology integrate into pulsating ecosystems. Each work in the series is a rhizome: each dives into different facets of the same theme and world and characters shift interchangeably from one story to the other. The works created so far combine in different ways live art with technology and the human with the non-human to create an alternative artistic language. It is an aesthetic research into how a synthesis of symbols, movement, music and technology can ignite a politics of poetic engagement.
Disruption Network Lab
▷ disruptionlab.org
▶︎ Production, project management, financial administration
The Disruption Network Lab is an experimental platform of research and practice focused on art, hacktivism and business disruption. The Lab works on the interferences between networking participation and disruptive innovation, mapping out a new space for intervention: Networked Disruption. The goal is to investigate and generate new possible routes of social and political action within the framework of art, hacktivism and network economy, through talks, presentations, workshops and exhibitions. Disruption Network Lab is a network of events and practices, merging and connecting online and physical environments. Directed by Tatiana Bazzichelli.
Berlin Centre for Advanced Studies in Arts and Sciences (BAS), UdK Berlin : Symposium “From the provisional to improvisation: strategies for action in an uncertain age”
▷ udk-berlin.de/en/research/bas/news/out-of-the-blue-from-the-provisional-to-improvisation
▶︎ Project management
The 3-day-symposium “Out of the Blue”, curated by Margit Schild and organized at the House of World Cultures, Berlin, in October 2017, created the framework for a cross-disciplinary dialogue between art and society. The aim was to draw attention to the characteristic features of improvisation or provisional activity, to define them more clearly and to make them visible for everyone in the sense of a generally applicable strategy for action. Guests from different academic, artistic and social spheres were invited to give presentations on their approach to issues relating to improvisation. In parallel, workshops and working groups offered the opportunity to gain inspiration and exchange views.
Frankfurter Kunstverein : Eagle-Eye Photo Contest – Landscapes of Surveillance
▷ fkv.de/en/exhibition/eagle-eye-photo-contest-winning-entries/
▶︎ project management
As part of the exhibition “Trevor Paglen: The Octopus” in 2015, Trevor Paglen and the Frankfurter Kunstverein initiated the Eagle-Eye Photo Contest. Instead of pretty landscapes, the organizers called on photographers, artists and the general public to explore and photography the landscapes of surveillance in contemporary Germany. From American NSA and German BND bases in our midst to the secret spy gear on US Embassies and Consulates, the “Eagle-Eye Photo Contest” focused on the landscapes of surveillance that are all around us. The winning photographs were presented at the Frankfurter Kunstverein, in the context of Trevor Paglenʼs exhibition “The Octopus” and published in the Journal Frankfurt
transmediale – festival for art & digital culture
▷ transmediale.de
▶︎ project management (conference, performance programme, Vilem-Flusser-residency programme
transmediale is a Berlin-based festival and year-round project that draws out new connections between art, culture and technology. The activities of transmediale aim at fostering a critical understanding of contemporary culture and politics as saturated by media technologies. In the course of its 29 year history, the annual transmediale festival has turned into an essential event in the calendar of media art professionals, artists, activists and students from all over the world. The broad cultural appeal of the festival is recognised by the German federal government who supports the transmediale through its programme for beacons of contemporary culture.