Exhibition

Infinite Scroll

17 Sep 2021 – 17 Oct 2021

Cost of entry

The exhibition can be viewed during the accompanying events or by personal arrangement, www.traumabarundkino.de
€20.35 each, https://ra.co/clubs/157011/events
Attendance for guests who can present a negative COVID test (24h). Vaccinated guests guests also required to present a negative test

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The exhibition Infinite Scroll at Trauma Bar und Kino (Trauma Bar and Cinema) is the European debut of the art collective i8i, formed by artists and musicians on Instagram during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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i8i
Infinite Scroll 
September 17 – October 17, 2021
Opening days: September 17 and 18, 7 pm–1 am
Performance: September 17 and 18, 8­–11 pm
Doors open: 7 pm
Trauma Bar und Kino
Heidestraße 50, 10557 Berlin 

The exhibition Infinite Scroll at Trauma Bar und Kino (Trauma Bar and Cinema) is the European debut of the art collective i8i, formed by ­artists and musicians on Instagram during the COVID-19 pandemic. The international and multidisciplinary collective explores themes of spirituality, technology, and digital identity with a focus on performance and installation.

The exhibition at Trauma Bar und Kino is not only the group’s first presentation in Europe, but also the first show by the collective in this configuration. It includes expansive installations and sculptures as well as sound works and performances that reflect i8i’s philosophy. Memes, music videos, and sound are interwoven with the sculptures and installations to create a narrative context. They guide the visitors through a labyrinth of sculptures and figures that tell the story of Infinite Scroll. They narrate the first chapter of a live role-play of the “Battle of Armageddon,” a decisive eschatological battle staged by i8i at the Trauma Bar und Kino. 

Trauma Bar und Kino becomes a spaceship on the verge of an apocalyptic collision. Æ, the creator of ÆOS (Artificial Emotional Operating System), wants to maintain his supremacy in the world understood as “Generally Accepted Reality.” To achieve this, he manipulates and changes information, facts and objects, waging a war of violence by sowing division and deception. The tool of his deception is Instagram, which becomes a manipulative instrument to control thinking, feeling, and being. In the story, Instagram becomes the Infinite Scroll with which AE attempts to create a new order. Infinite Scroll unites the forces of spirituality and technology—but also natural resources and political powers.  

At the Trauma Bar und Kino, i8i thus creates an analog and expanded World Wide Web, a tangible version of a virtual reality that has re-embedded itself in everyone’s consciousness during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Alternative timelines interact alongside our “Generally Accepted Reality.” 

  

                                             Infinite Scroll 

                                                 (Æ)

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          ==(Religion/Technology)==0=======(Oil and Gas)=====

                                                     |

                                                  (i8i)

                                                   |

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                           0=Instagram/Infinite Scroll-Brain

Curated by Madalina Stanescu with i8i (DÆMON, Jæce, FITNESSS, S280F, 011668, Ben Sang, münki, Lag Switch, Pain Party, VVXXII, Lucid Interval, Riccardo d'Avola-Corte).

@mmadalinastanescu | Madalina Stanescu 

@i8i, @daemon.xd, @jaece.xd, @flt.n3sss, @s280f, @1.00068, @_bensang, @pious_global, @lagswitchmu, @painnpartyy, @_vvxxii, @lucid.interval, @ri292929

TRAUMBABARUNDKINO
Since opening in summer 2018, Trauma Bar und Kino has provided the Berlin creative community with a much-needed alternative to traditional club and gallery culture. Situated in the Heidestrasse district (and one of the few remaining original buildings in the area), the interior has been reconstructed from scratch, resulting in a sensory playground that is endlessly redefinable. The space comprises of a professional-grade dancefloor, three staircases leading to three viewing platforms, a 54-seat cinema, 5:4 video boxes, and a maze. The modular nature of the space means normal rules no longer apply: a performance can lead to a club night, cinema screening, or immersive installation—or perhaps all of them at once. Traumabar und KIno is a queer, feminist and sex-positive friendly space.

TRAUMABARUNDKINO
Heidestraße 50
10557 Berlin
Traumabarundkino.de

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