Rituals of Wasted Technology
Saturday, January 14, 2023
Kuppelhalle
4:00 pm – 7:30 pm CET/GMT+1
4:00 pm – 7:30 pm CET/GMT+1
Lectures and Roundtable
The accompanying roundtable program to the exhibition Rituals of Wasted Technology will feature lectures by aLifveForms (cared for by JP Raether), Asia J. Biega, and Dorothea von Hantelmann, followed by discussions with artist Marco Barotti and exhibition curators Pauline Doutreluingne and Keumhwa Kim.These discussions will reflect on how technologies affect the rituals of our everyday lives and how they influence artistic exhibition practices. Which kinds of rituals are present in our technoid society? For Byung Chul Han, “rituals are symbolic techniques of making oneself at home in the world.” Rituals strengthen community by facilitating collective experiences of closure, transition, celebration, and grief. On a neurological level, the repetition of ritual acts alters neurological processing, increasing human attention span and long-term memory. Our current epoch is marked by a decline in ritual behavior, as we have always known it. How can new collective rituals be created to better live in our contemporary, digital context?
The program collaborates with different sites in Berlin that function as “memory spaces,” places of worship, healing places, and places of devotion. Artists are invited to develop their work based on a novel, site-specific approach that engages with the histories of exhibition locations.
For more information, call 845-758-6822,
or visit https://www.silent-green.net/en/programme/detail/2023/1/14/rituals-of-wasted-technology-vortraege-und-roundtable.
Time: 4:00 pm – 7:30 pm CET/GMT+1
Location: Kuppelhalle