Artist Residency, Grundschule an der Hasenheide & Schule im Nibelungenviertel Bernau (DE), 2025/26

A school-based artist residency programme placing working artists directly in Brandenburg classrooms. Through an open studio model, pupils and teachers visit the atelier, observe artistic practice in action, and participate in hands-on creative work. MAX is an initiative of the Stiftung Brandenburger Tor, continued and developed by the Plattform Kulturelle Bildung Brandenburg, and supported by the Ministerium für Wissenschaft, Forschung und Kultur Brandenburg, Schering Stiftung, EWE Stiftung, and Liebelt Stiftung. The programme was awarded the Zukunftspreis für Kulturbildung by the Kulturstiftung der Länder and Deutsche Bank Stiftung in 2018.

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A hands-on sonic happening and installation in which visitors collaboratively built an immersive sound environment and jewelry using basic electronic components and e-waste — part of WRO’s Instrumentarium series reimagining the piano as an ecological and artistic object.

What is the sound of one popcorn popping?
If you were a kernel, how would you pop?
What happens when we all pop together?

Popcorn in Training is a hands-on happening that transforms into a sound installation, inviting the public to collaboratively build an immersive sonic experience while exploring the material foundations of electronic music: wires, resistors, capacitors, and chips.

Our handmade square-wave oscillators echo the metronomic knocking and tapping of the deconstructed piano. Together, participants create a soundscape where pops, clicks, and squeaks slip in and out of sync, sparking unexpected encounters with harmony and happenstance.

This work encourages playful experimentation with DIY electronics and dynamic troubleshooting as an improvisational approach to experimental music-making. The project draws on media archaeology while demystifying technology through direct material engagement.

The public is invited to actively participate in building circuits and/or cable necklaces or simply drop in to listen as the installation evolves. The event kicks off with the pop of the first oscillator and gradually builds over the course evening.

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Popcorn Ausbildung — Open Hertzlab
Workshop / Performance, ZKM Hertz-Lab, Karlsruhe (DE), November 2025

A participatory happening presented as part of the Giga-Hertz Festival for Electronic Music and Sound Art

Wie klingt ein einzelnes Popcorn, wenn es platzt? Und wie verändert sich dieser Sound in einem Kollektiv?
In diesem Workshop-Sound-Happening bauen die Teilnehmenden mit selbstgebastelten Rechteckoszillatoren eine lebendige Klanglandschaft auf. Gemeinsam erschaffen wir eine experimentelle Mehrspur-Drum-Machine, bei der Knackgeräusche, Klicks und Quietschen synchron und asynchron ineinanderfließen und so unvorhersehbare Begegnungen von Harmonie und Zufall hervorrufen. Die Veranstaltung beginnt mit dem Knacken des ersten Oszillators und steigert sich im Laufe von drei Stunden allmählich.

Bei „Popcorn in Training” wird das spielerische Experimentieren mit DIY-Elektronik und improvisiertem Troubleshooting als improvisatorischer Ansatz für experimentelles Musizieren gefördert. Alle, die sich für Klang, Elektrizität und Popcorn interessieren, sind willkommen – insbesondere Anfänger:innen!

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What is the sound of one popcorn popping? If you were a kernel, how would you pop? And what happens when we all pop together?
This hybrid workshop / sonic happening invites you to collaboratively build an immersive sound experience using handmade square-wave oscillators. Together, we create an experimental multi-track drum machine where pops, clicks, and squeaks slip in and out of sync, sparking unexpected encounters with harmony and happenstance.

“Popcorn in Training” encourages playful experimentation with DIY electronics and dynamic troubleshooting as an improvisational approach to experimental music-making. Open to anyone curious about sound, electricity, and popcorn – beginners especially welcome!

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A major group exhibition centred on the Fluxus collection of gallerist Inge Baecker, presented alongside contemporary artists responding to this legacy.
Featuring new work “Anleitung zum anhören Kaputter Musik” — a sound and material response to Milan Knížák’s pioneering “Destruierte Musik.”

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HOW WE MET

08.11.2025—01.02.2026
Kunstmuseum Bochum
Kortumstraße 147
44787 Bochum, Germany

Opening
Friday, 07.11.2025, 19:00
20:00 – Performance by Taka Kagitomi, Growth Ring of Vibration

Rooted in the spirit of Fluxus, HOW WE MET transforms the museum into a lively space for encounter, sound experiments, and playful construction—where community, transience, humor, and utopia meet. The show brings together works and documents from the museum’s Fluxus collection alongside newly created site-specific structures and films. An accompanying action program, HOWWEEEEE, activates the exhibition with workshops, open mics, performances, and city walks.

New productions by
Taka Kagitomi, Darsha Hewitt, bureaumilieux (Jean-Michaël Taillebois & Sébastien Tripod) & Mélissa Rouvinet.

With thanks to Kunstmuseum Bochum and partners.

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Exhibition at Flutgraben, Berlin
September 12 – 21, 2025

THE DELUGE is an exhibition project that fills the presentation spaces of Flutgraben with a flood of artistic positions and their publics. Taking a literal understanding of the building’s name and playing with its mythical dimension, THE DELUGE gestures toward floods (and graves) both allegorical and actual.

At this time of ecological transformation and global political uncertainty—when historical power structures are being transfigured in radical and uncertain ways—the urgency in artistic practice has rarely been more palpable. THE DELUGE brings together diverse voices for shared reflection and discussion.

Contributing Artists

Tarek Abbar, Thomas Bayrle, Gerry Bibby, Erik Bünger, Eric D. Clark,
Mikala Hyldig Dal, Marta Dyachenko, DJ Puddle, Fehras Publishing Practices,
Pyrolator, Christa Joo Hyun D’Angelo, Gudrun Gut, Janice Guy, Darsha Hewitt,
Olga Hohmann, Travis Jeppesen, Mischa Leinkauf, Simon Mann,
Matthias Krause Hamrin, Kirsi Mikkola, Thomias Radin, Michael Sayles,
Margot Schmitt, Wieland Schönfelder, Pola Sieverding, Stephanie Stein,
Christoph Steinmeyer, Tommy Stöckel, Maria Turik, Lauryn Youden,
Ekrem Yalcindag, Theresa Weber

Curated by Lee Plested
in collaboration with Matthias Krause Hamrin

Opening Program

Friday, September 12, 2025

• 6 – 10 PM · Exhibition Opening

• 8 PM · Performance by Olga Hohmann

• 10 – 2 AM · Afterparty featuring Eric D. Clark

Flutgraben e.V.
Am Flutgraben 3
12435 Berlin, Germany

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August 28th – November 9th 2025
Total Babes
Autumn Exhibition 2025

The exhibition Total Babes invites viewers to explore themes of softness, power and feminine energy in contemporary art. At its heart, the exhibition examines the multifaceted nature of cuteness, the divine feminine and the animistic belief that (mother) nature is a living, dynamic entity. These concepts are viewed through the lens of how they manifest in people, places and things, particularly at a time when feminine archetypes are reemerging and reshaping our understanding of identity and balance.

Bringing together works across a range of mediums, Total Babes presents diverse interpretations of archetypes, mythological figures and humanity’s relationship with the natural world. Through these varied perspectives, the exhibition offers an engaging and thought-provoking exploration of vulnerability, strength and empowerment by opening a portal to bring the ethereal down to earth.

The featured artists are:
Berglind Ágústsdóttir | Hrefna Sigurðardóttir
Darsha Hewitt | Svava Skúladóttir
Dýrfinna Benita Basalan | Róska
Gunnhildur Hauksdóttir | Gunnþórunn Sveinsdóttir
Hildur Ása Henrýsdóttir | Kíkó Korriró
Hulda Vilhjálmsdóttir | Kjarval
Veronica Brovall | Sóley Eiríksdóttir

Curated by Jasa Baka and Petra Hjartardóttir.

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HIFI TO LOFI CONTINUUM: MEDIA ARCHEOLOGY AND THE ‘POLITICAL ECOLOGY’ OF MUSIC

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FIN ET DEBUT

What comes after damaged landscapes? Where do we build our futures on? And with whom?

In her poem End and Beginning, the Polish Nobel Laureate Wisława Szymborska, describing a barren landscape in the aftermath of war, weaves a narrative of resilience, reflection, and hope. Reflecting on the struggles for renewal, healing and collective responsibility her words carry a diachronic significance. Although referring to a specific conflict, her verses hold a frightening and unfortunate universal validity making her call for communal action, empathy, and care more relevant than ever. Inspired by Szymborska’s reflection on the collapse of ideologies, the relentless passage of time and history, and the irreversible decay of the past along with everything that comes with it, iMAL wonders: How would a future built on empathy and collective care look like?

Challenging long-held notions of human singularity, excessive progress, and growth Fin et début / Einde en begin redefines the notion of care as an ecological and relational structure; as a polyphonic assemblage of shared existence between human, nature and technology. Embarking on an exploratory journey into alternative systems of care between humans and non-human entities, this exhibition offers a place of transformative encounters fostering self-reflection and re-imagination of the infinite possibilities of our shared futures.

Curated as an intricate narrative of care, the exhibition unfolds across three interconnected circles: Care for Humans, Care for Nature and Care for Technology. The exhibition presents 11 works produced within the European Media Arts Platform (EMAP) residency program and 4 recent productions by Belgium-based artists. Their encounter offers space for reflection and reconsideration of formative societal infrastructures such as labour, communal practices, energy consumption and highlights the vitality for inter-species knowledge exchange and the importance of empathy for humans and other-than-human entities through diverse lenses. By giving agency to and drawing connections between underrepresented voices and alternative perspectives—be they human, artificial, natural, or imaginative—the exhibition invites the public to take a step towards unexplored territories of our shared futures and reimagine resilient collective ecosystems rooted in multispecies cooperation.

Here, “everything is intelligent and worthy of our care and conscious attention.” (James Bridle, Ways of Being)

ARTISTS

Annelie Berner
Johanna Bruckner
Nicolas Gourault
Darsha Hewitt
Dasha Ilina
Rosa Menkman
Vivien Roubaud
Caroline Sinders (en collaboration avec Trammell Hudson)
Studio Above & Below
Endi Tupja (en collaboration avec Klodianna Millona)
T(n)C
Total Refusal
Ava Zevop
Alex Verhaest

PROGRAMME PARALLÈLE

Barbara C. Branco
Crew
Darsha Hewitt
Gala Hernández López
Fleur Melbourn
Total Refusal
… et bien d’autres

Works in exhibition supported / Produced by The European Media Arts Platform:

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Tuning the LoFi Soundscape: DIY Practice and the ‘Political Ecology’ of Music

Keynote Lecture New Interfaces for Musical Expression – GAUDEAMUS Festival
Sept. 6th
19.00-20.00
TivoliVredenburg – Hertz

New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME), is an international conference about new musical interfaces, their artistic use and the technologies involved in building them. Researchers from all over the world share their knowledge and late breaking work during the conference. The conference started as a workshop at the CHI conference in 2001 and, since then, has been held annually around the world.

NIME2024 will be held between September 2 and 6, 2024 in Utrecht. The conference will be held physically but with opportunities to follow the conference online as well. This years edition is organised by three institutions: Sounds Like Touch, Gaudeamus and HKU (University of the Arts Utrecht). The conference is partly ingrained within the Gaudeamus Festival 2024. This festival annually attracts about 3000 (inter)national visitors and hosts a the Gaudeamus Award, an incentive prize for composers under 35. Visitors at the Gaudeamus Festival are known to not only be interested in New Music but also in new ways of making it. There will also be lots of concerts that are interesting for the NIME audience and an Off-NIME program is part of it.

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