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The CTM 2022 exhibition »Connected Alienation / Vernetzte Entfremdung« provides a look into various aspects of working collaboratively in pandemic times. The works by Ale Hop, Dana Gingras / Animals of Distinction, Hugo Esquinca, and Ibrahim Quraishi are the result of artistic exchanges across distances and time. They involve a wide range of voices that spans among other Peaches, Alaska Thunderfuck, Hanna Schygulla, Marina Abramović, Lucrecia Dalt, Ana Quiroga, Noah Chomsky, Sarah Williams, Moises Horta, and KMRU. Taken together, they point to potentials, effects, successes, and pitfalls of telematically mediated contact and encounters.

Running 28.1.–6.2.2022 in Kunstquartier Bethanien Projektraum are four separate installation works. Featuring new creations by Collo Awata and Madam Data, Gaspar Cohen, Nohe Noshe, and pantea & u-matic & telematique, they are presented under the title »Connected Alienation – Bonus Tracks« and reflect on temporality and ongoing, durational processes.

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Commissioned as part of the CTM Radio Lab, »Incantations« is a work for voices and a newly-made brass object. It sources Armenian spells and incantations, which are a codified attempt to conjure the supernatural, avert bad luck, and deflect misfortune through apotropaic magic. In their raw, oral, and vernacular states incantations bridge a gap between speculative futures and passing realities.

Entrance to »Incantations« is free of charge, however visitors must first check in at the Betonhalle entrance. Staff will check your Covid-19 vaccination/test status and give you a wristband, which may then be presented at the Kuppelhalle entrance.

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The Research Networking Day (RND) is an exchange platform for students and researchers from different graduate and postgraduate programmes traversing the fields of audio, arts, media, design, and related theoretical disciplines. Ten presentations are regrouped within thematic modules on the sound of healing, assymetries in sonic experiences of power, and the sound of nature, respectively. During the sessions, the audience is invited to send questions via YouTube chat.

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Two discussion modules will be streamed via CTM’s YouTube channel on 30 January.

Music researcher Shzr Ee Tan will lead a module exploring how we might uncover »Hidden Flows« in the world of music and performance, reframing discussions on labour, authenticity, and creation in dialogue with researchers Rehilwe Mooketsi and Anjeline de Dios, who bring specific perspectives from South Africa and the Philippines respectively.

Within CTM's Rethinking Music Ecosystems Series, Black Swan will offer a public presentation and Q&A titled »Prototyping Sonic Institutions« to kick off a yearlong participatory experiment with the extended music community. Employing decentralised autonomous organisation (DAO) infrastructure and thought in a bid to realise new ways of creating work, Black Swan will work with a number of resource-pledging silent stakeholders.

During the sessions, the audience is invited to send questions via YouTube chat.

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Commissioned by the CTM Radio Lab, »What is Not / O Que Não Está« is an installation and audio piece created by the duo Fronte Violeta together with director, actress, and playwright Martha Kiss Perrone and with the collaboration from actress and performer Kay Sara and singer Juçara Marçal. The artists investigate a cycle of various long-acting natural forces that promote structural transformation, while also pointing to contact between the human and non-human, and between inert and living matter.

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A limited number of virtual visits are available to the CTM 2022 Exhibition and installations by Andrius Arutiunian and Fronte Violeta. Conducted by local friends and colleagues within CTM’s extended network, the visits aim to foster personal exchange, and to offer a glimpse of several CTM events at a time when more people than ever might not be able to make it in person.

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Funded by
Senate Department of Culture and Europe | Goethe-Institut | Auswärtiges Amt | Creative Europe Programme of the European Union | German Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media | German Federal Cultural Foundation | »dive in. Programme for Digital Interactions« of the German Federal Cultural Foundation with funding of the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media (BKM) through the »Neustart Kultur« programme | Autonom – Fonds Darstellende Künste | Federal Agency for Civic Education | Musicboard Berlin

In Cooperation with
transmediale 2022 | singuhr – projekte | HAU Hebbel am Ufer | Berghain | Festsaal Kreuzberg | Kunstquartier Bethanien | Kunstraum Kreuzberg / Bethanien  | radialsystem | silent green | Heimathafen Neukölln | SchwuZ | Tieranatomisches Theater / Humboldt Universität zu Berlin

Supported by
Embassy of Canada | Embassy of the Netherlands | Ableton | Complete Audio | SAE | HEDD Audio | 3 Schwestern

Media Partners
The Wire | Crack | FACT Magazine | Tip Berlin | taz – die tageszeitung | Siegessäule | RBB radioeins | Berliner Fenster | Deutschlandfunk Kultur