Screen City Biennial

19/10/2022

Final days to experience To See Without Man (2022) by Viktor Pedersen with Ingrid K. Bjørnaali at the Solar Physical Cabinet, Archenhold Observatory in Berlin

To See Without Man is a poetic attempt to make contact with the vegetal mind, in an effort to understand the plants’ modes of sensing their surroundings. Can mind-expanding symbiosis with plants lead us to a broader understanding of their ways of seeing, communicating, and remembering? Can the leaf as an energy-processing surface provide a practical tool to rethink extractive practices, those that are leading to an anthropogenic depletion of resources? Can photosynthesis provide a speculative framework to imagine a future in which the human body has learned to process starlight and has partly become vegetal?

Commissioned by Screen City Biennial
Supported by the Norwegian Embassy in Berlin / Norwegische Botschaft in Berlin

Photo by Daniela Arriado
Still images: To See Without Man by Viktor Pedersen with Ingrid K. Bjørnaali

19/10/2022

19/10/2022

Final days to experience Capture by Metahaven at the Albert Einstein Hall, Archenhold Observatory

An intimate, powerful moving image work about (in)commensurabilities between art and physics, Capture interweaves archival footage from CERN (the European Organization for Nuclear Research) with lichens filmed in a forest near Trondheim, Norway, narrated by protagonist A. Lichens are a symbiotic association between a fungus and green algae or cyanobacteria) which, in the film, are praised for their refusal to be categorized as a single species. Capture suggests that the construction of particle colliders at CERN was an act of inscription, writing, or “burying a spaceship" into the earth.

Written, directed, and edited by Metahaven. Cast: Anita Ricci. Music by Espen Sommer Eide. Director of Photography: Remko Schnorr. Additional Photography: Metahaven and Kyulim Kim.

Co-commissioned by Screen City Biennial, Kunsthall Trondheim and Arts at CERN -with additional support from KORO and the Arts Council Norway /Kulturrådet

In Berlin, supported by Embassy of the Netherlands / nlkultur

Still images: Capture (2022), Metahaven
Photo by Daniela Arriado

12/10/2022

Meet Lundahl & Seitl, the artists behind the immersive experiences Eternal Return: The Memor (VR) and Symphony of a Missing Room, STERNWARTE—A Language of What May Not Be Said (2022) - a site specific edition for the Archenhold Observatory and SCB Other Minds.

Christer Lundahl & Martina Seitl ‘s immersive methods include staging visitors’ guided movement to augment and alter reality. The virtual experience in their works is created with peculiar objects such as sightless goggles or methods of choreographed touch by reverse engineering visual stimuli. Through a heuristic relationship to process, and created in collaboration between disciplines, the duo has developed an art form and method containing staging, choreographed movement, instructions, sculpture, spatial sound, and augmented and virtual reality. Their performances focus on the resonance between a world and its inhabitants, drawing attention to the connectivity and interdependence that exists within any given environment.

Lundahl & Seitl’s works have been exhibited worldwide, including Tate Britain, Whitechapel Gallery, Battersea Arts Centre, Royal Academy of Arts, Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berliner Festspiele, Center Pompidou-Metz, among many others. They live and work in Stockholm, Sweden.

Read more about them and their work on www.screencitybiennial.org/project/lundahl-seitl

Eternal Return: The Memor is co-created with
At SCB performed by: .sollie_

Supported by Nordisk kulturkontakt & Swebotschaft Berlin

Portrait by: Thron Ullberg
Images from SCB by

06/10/2022

On Sunday October 9th, we will activate our exhibition Other Minds at the Archenhold Observatory with a program including an exhibition tour by curator Vanina Saracino, a psychogeographic stroll by Anna Ehrenstein with 4DHD / Cibelle Cavalli Bastos & Coco Magnusson, and a lecture-performance by Eli Cortiñas

Join us!

Program:
2-3pm: Exhibition tour (in English), departing from main entrance
3-4pm: Coffee Ground Imaginaries (2022), a psychographic stroll by Anna Ehrenstein and 4DHD, departing from Garden of Archenhold Observatory 4:30-5:30pm: I`d Blush if I Could (2022), lecture-performance by Eli Cortiñas. Location: Archenhold Observatory, auditorium, first floor

Images:
1.Coffee Ground Imaginaries (2022). Photo by:
2.I’d Blush if I Could (2022). Photo by Eli Cortiñas
3.Curator Vanina Saracino, Metorite room. Photo by:

06/10/2022

Eli Cortiñas is a video artist of Cuban descent, born in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria. Cortiñas has recently been appointed Professor for Media Art at the Academy of Fine Arts Leipzig. She has received numerous grants and residencies, including Fundación Botín, Kunstfonds, Villa Massimo, Berlin Senate and m.m. Her artistic practice can be located within the appropriation tradition, using already existing audiovisual material to de- and re-construct identities as well as hegemonic narratives. Her collage-like video essays and installations mix found imagery with documentary strategies.

You will meet Eli and her newest artwork at the Archenhold Observatory during SCB: I’ve Always Demanded More From The Sunset (2022) presented as a 3-Channel-Videoinstallation exhibited in the Room behind the Moon, and I’d Blush if I Could (2022), a lecture performance and video in progress, given on Sunday the 9th of October.

Join us! ✨✨✨
More info about the talk and performance program www.screencitybiennial.org

06/10/2022

A glimpse from I’ve Always Demanded More From The Sunset (2022) by Eli Cortiñas exhibited in the Room behind the Moon at the Archenhold Observatory ✨✨✨

In I’ve Always Demanded More From The Sunset a mysterious female artificial intelligence warns us about humans being naturally drawn to killing. While navigating different sequences of breathing exercises to overcome fear and what seems to be an array of nonhuman entities in a state of uncanniness and disbelief, different associations and questions begin to appear: what stories lie in the forest? What emerges from the ruins of man-made devastation? An orchestrated symphony of mushrooms grows from the soil like a poetic anticipation of post-human life.

Join us for an evening with Eli Cortiñas through a live lecture performance given on Sunday 9th of October. Get your ticket! www.screencitybiennial.org

06/10/2022

Join us for an evening with Eli Cortiñas! Lecture performance I Sunday 9th October I 16:30-17:30 I Archenhold Observatory

"I’d Blush if I Could "proposes a critical approach to the increasing feminisation of technology, devices like voice-activated systems and other kinds of artificial intelligence. The work navigates through different archival footage and audiovisual imagery surrounding different sentient beings—humanoid robots, voice activated systems, chat bots, gynomorphic and zoomorphic social devices. Conceived as a lecture-performance that would later culminate in a video installation, this project interrogates the continuous attempt to bridge the divide between nature and culture by simulating organic and sensorial experiences through new technologies, that merely display nature while avoiding a true engagement with it and other non-human living entities.

Thank you Eli Cortiñas✨✨✨

05/10/2022

Come visit us at the Archenhold Observatory. Opening times:
Tue-Fri: 3-9pm, Sat.-Sun.1-6pm
Time slots recommended for VR

Keep an eye on the talk and performance program: www.screencitybiennial.org / link in bio

Photos by:

05/10/2022

01/10/2022

A glimpse from Eternal Return: The Memor by Lundahl & Seitl / Martina Seitl with Scanlab Projects

The Memor involves VR technologies in friction with material objects and the human ability to organize perception into a world. Inside the 3D scanned environments, the visitor’s own body is present as a ghost, an absent presence. The body enabling the experience of the virtual space is a wetware repository of minerals, bacteria, and traces of energy systems. From Earth’s deep past as unicellular cyanobacteria, through to its post-anthropocentric future, The Memor is a testimony of all living matters’ close connection with geology: the surface of the earth stored within a lineage of objects, tools, and technological matters, inseparable from the human Umwelt.

Eternal Return is accompanied by “The Memor” by Malin Zimm, a text of speculative fiction that offers an expanded narrative framework for the artwork.

With the generous support from Swebotschaft Berlin & Nordisk kulturkontakt

Photo by

30/09/2022

A glimpse from Eternal Return: The Memor by Lundahl & Seitl with Scanlab Projects
Here performed by Christine Sollie at the Museum of Celestial Science, Archenhold Sternwarte

Book a time slot so you don’t miss this immersive experience!
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The Memor involves VR technologies in friction with material objects and the human ability to organize perception into a world. Inside the 3D scanned environments, the visitor’s own body is present as a ghost, an absent presence. The body enabling the experience of the virtual space is a wetware repository of minerals, bacteria, and traces of energy systems. From Earth’s deep past as unicellular cyanobacteria, through to its post-anthropocentric future, The Memor is a testimony of all living matters’ close connection with geology: the surface of the earth stored within a lineage of objects, tools, and technological matters, inseparable from the human Umwelt.

Eternal Return is accompanied by “The Memor” by Malin Zimm, a text of speculative fiction that offers an expanded narrative framework for the artwork. Voice by Martina Seitl

With the generous support from Nordisk kulturkontakt & Swebotschaft Berlin

Video by Daniela Arriado

28/09/2022

Glimpses from the opening! Thank you all for being there and celebrating this special day with us! Photos captured elegantly by:

The exhibition is on and welcomes you! Every Sunday offers guided tours at 2pm and a series of talks and performances throughout October. Tickets and time slots can be booked on www.screencitybiennial.org / link in bio

Thanks to the artists, our partners and supporters: @nordiskkulturkontakt

25/09/2022

About Capture (2022) From yesterday’s talk between and .saracino at the Einstein Hall —
During SCB you can experience this unique film at the Einstein Hall of Archenhold Observatory.

An intimate, powerful moving image work about (in)commensurabilities between art and physics, Capture interweaves archival footage from CERN (the European Organization for Nuclear Research) with lichens filmed in a forest near Trondheim, Norway, narrated by protagonist A. With music by Espen Sommer Eide / —
Commissioned by Screen City Biennial, and ——
With additional support from KORO and the Arts Council Norway. Arts at CERN is supported by UNIQA Fine Art Insurance, Switzerland. This film was supported by the Netherlands Film Fund. Additional support from La Palma Escuela de Cultura e Instituto canario de desarrollo cultural.

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24/09/2022

SCB Other Minds is finally open! Join us for the talk and performance program this weekend! —
TODAY/SEPT.24

15:30–16:30
Metahaven in conversation with Vanina Saracino
✴︎ Location: Archenhold Observatory, Einstein Hall

17:00—18:00
SOUND PERFORMANCE
Jacob Kirkegaard
OPUS MORS: Opus Autopsia (2019)
Introduction by Vanina Saracino.
Performance followed by a Q&A with the artist.
Performance duration: 20’
✴︎ Location: Archenhold Observatory, Small Observatory (garden)

Tickets: https://2022.screencitybiennial.org/tickets-and-info

20/09/2022

SCB is proud to present Viktor Pedersen & Ingrid K. Bjørnaali`s new video To See Without Man (2022) - a poetic attempt to make contact with the vegetal mind, in an effort to understand the plants’ modes of sensing their surroundings.

Can mind-expanding symbiosis with plants lead us to a broader understanding of their ways of seeing, communicating, and remembering?
Can photosynthesis provide a speculative framework to imagine a future in which the human body has learned to process starlight and has partly become vegetal?

From Sept. 23 you can experience this immersive artwork at the Solar Physical Cabinet of the -sternwarte /Observatory. And join the talk between and curator on Sept.25.

Read more & get your ticket: https://2022.screencitybiennial.org

19/09/2022

SCB is proud to present Patricia Dominguez and her new video Matrix Vegetal for this upcoming edition. Growing out of her artistic interpretation of learning undertaken in Madre de Dios (Peru), 's Matrix Vegetal is a filmic inquiry into experimental ethnobotany, South American quantum thinking, dream fiction, and organic connection technologies, in search of ways to make the vegetal and the spiritual worlds more perceptible.

Read the interview with Patricia in the upcoming issue of Monopol Magazine (launched Sept.22) and visit her installation located at the Archenhhold Observatory, Museum of Celestial Science

Image: Matrix Vegetal (2022), Photo: Emilia Martín