Exhibition

transmediale July programme

10 Jul 2021 – 22 Aug 2021

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Saturday
10:00 – 18:00
Sunday
10:00 – 18:00
Tuesday
10:00 – 18:00
Wednesday
10:00 – 18:00
Thursday
10:00 – 18:00
Friday
10:00 – 18:00

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Silent Green

Berlin
Berlin, Germany

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transmediale will present two exhibitions dedicated to this year’s festival theme 'for refusal': a large-scale video work by Yang Ah Ham, and the film programme 'remote. response. request. II.', featuring Elsa Brès and Maud Craigie. The two shows will be opening together in silent green on 10 July.

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Premiering for the first time, transmediale presents the video installation, 'Undefined Panorama 3.1' by Yang Ah Ham. This expansive piece is reminiscent of Hieronymus Bosch's 'The Haywain' and runs on a 12-metre panorama screen from 10 to 18 July in  the Cupola, silent green. As part of transmediale 2021–22, the work is being shown for the first time.
Since the 1990s, Yang Ah Ham’s work has explored the development of alternative socio-political systems. In this latest work, Yang Ah Ham draws attention to how societal infrastructures and services protect those in power and exacerbate conflict and precarity. Raising questions about the abolition of these hegemonic structures, the large-scale projection opens up conversation around possibilities of new societal systems based on solidarity and care.

The second part of the film programme 'remote. response, request. II.' presents two video works by Elsa Brès and Maud Craigie. In 'notes for les sanglières', Elsa Brès constructs a non-human world that exposes the erroneous fiction of human sovereignty over nature. With a pack of algorithmically animated boars as protagonists, Brès reveals the fallacy of anthropocentrism, until the idea of our primary place within the Earth’s ecology becomes a delusion. The work is commissioned by transmediale and will be on view for the first time.

In 'Indications of guilt, pt. 1', Maud Craigie examines the structures of US police
interrogations. She refers to the process of “bad evidence” – a term used by US police to describe intelligence that challenges their existing theory of a case. Bad evidence relates to a legal principle that once detectives have established a probable cause, they are under no obligation to follow leads that may exonerate the defendant. The job of a detective, in other words, is to create a hypothetical, story-driven world, based on the links of causality along with biased intuition – much like the intrigues of a crime drama. Designed in the interrogation room, this speculative world proceeds to be legitimised and actualised through the infrastructures of the courts and the legal system. Craigie confronts this process in order to draw attention to the alarming frequency of miscarriages of justice within the US legal system.

The film programme is on view for six weeks from 10 July in transmediale studio, silent green Kulturquartier.

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