The Mechanical Corps. On the Trail of Jules Verne

Steam engines, clockworks, cogs and gears, valves and pistons, copper, riveted steel and leather – the retro-futuristic world of steampunk is fascinating more and more hobbyists and novelists, nostalgists and utopists, established artists and eager amateurs.

BER-DTM-HNL – Fasten your seatbelts!

Evil Clowns

„Jetzt helfe ich mir selbst“ (Now I Can Help Myself) - The 100 best Internet video tutorials

Today, in the age of do-it-yourself (DIY), the Internet video tutorial has become what the German book series “Jetzt helfe ich mir selbst” (Now I Can Help Myself) once was for the car enthusiast. The exhibition shows a selection of the 100 funniest and most absurd, exciting, uncanny, and amusing video tutorials online.

World of Matter – On the Global Ecologies of Raw Material

"World of Matter" is an international research, exhibition, and online project investigating primary materials and the complex ecologies of which they are a part. The exhibition presents aesthetic and ethical approaches to the handling of resources, while challenging the anthropocentric assumption that the planet’s materials are primarily a resource for human consumption. The newly produced works engage mining in Brazil, oil extraction from Canada’s tar sands, rice and cotton production in southeast Asia, land reclamation in Egypt, fishing in the North Sea, the sugar trade in Nigeria, and coal mining in the Ruhr.

NEW INDUSTRIES FESTIVAL

NEW INDUSTRIES FESTIVAL: Axel Braun – To the benefit of a society of tomorrow for which we build today

NEW INDUSTRIES FESTIVAL: Requiem for a Bank

The exhibition Requiem for a Bank examines the new forms of industry, with a particular focus on the development of global financial markets since 1972 – a time when inflation, rising unemployment and successive oil crises combined with the emergence of new information technologies to give birth to a new kind of financial economy that was no longer dependent on real goods or services.

NEW INDUSTRIES FESTIVAL: INDUSTRIAL (Research)

INDUSTRIAL (Research) asks a deceptively simple question: What happened to industry? This question applies not only to the Ruhr but also to large parts of Belgium, Northern France, Northern England, the USA, and formerly socialist states in Eastern Europe. How does the so-called ‘structural change’ affect communities and landscapes globally? And what are its repercussions in art and popular culture?

HIS MASTER'S VOICE: On Voice and Language

Eran Schaerf: fm-scenario – broadcasting language – undercover operation – station announcement – error