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Bright futures. Videocity ✕ Chemnitz - films & concert by Bertolt Meyer

The video art network Videocity presents an open-air evening with international short films on the theme of "Posthuman" and a concert by Berlin modular synth enthusiast Bertolt Meyer
[Translate to Englisch:] Annika Stoll: »Soft Transformation« (Videostill), 2022 © Die Künstlerin

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Location

Chemnitz, Subbotnik / Intervention area Vettersstraße
Vettersstraße 34a, 09126 Chemnitz
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entrance free

"Radiant Futures" brings together seven video works that sketch out speculative visions of a post-human age. Between AI-generated worlds, fluid identities and hybrid life forms, the artists negotiate new alliances between humans, nature and technology. Inspired by the decentrally organised nervous system of the octopus, real and fictitious microorganisms and logics shaped by social media, scenarios are created in which linear thinking is replaced by complexity. The works reflect a world in flux, in which reality dissolves and recomposes itself - between surface and depth, body and data, memory and simulation. Video serves as a tool of the imagination: for futures that are as tantalising as they are disturbing.

Artists: WANG Chen, ETAGE, Stefan Hurtig, Gabriel S Moses, Annika Stoll, Yuyuan Wang, Ella Yolande

For the Capital of Culture year Chemnitz 2025, the socio-cultural centre Subbotnik is staging various events in the adjacent open space on Vettersstraße. Videocity is cooperating with the association for an open-air evening with video art and live music.

Bertolt Meyer (Berlin/Chemnitz) is a DJ, producer and self-confessed modular synthesiser enthusiast who was born without his left forearm. Instead of letting this restrict his creative activities, he hacked his prosthetic hand to make electronic music. The queer musician and psychology professor embodies a posthuman perspective in which body and technology merge.

Programme

  • 20:30-21:30 Concert: Bertolt Meyer, live electronica with modular synthesiser
  • 21:30-22:30 Video programme "Radiant Futures"

Curators: Stefan Hurtig and Videocity

Location: Outdoor space of the intervention area Vettersstraße (in the hall in case of rain)

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Subbotnik / Videocity

Program field

Barrierefreiheit

Gender-neutral toilet

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Barrier-free travel by public transport

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Relaxation room

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Assistance dog welcome

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Accompanying person free

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Microprojects

The micro-projects are intended to provide stimuli for new cultural formats or encounters in Chemnitz and the Capital of Culture Region. The broad urban and regional society is called upon to create forms of communication and social interaction. The funding programme has been in place for several years and is part of the main programme of the European Capital of Culture Chemnitz 2025.

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