Vorspiel

a citywide programme
by spaces and initiatives
around transmediale
and CTM festivals


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The Vorspiel Collection brings together artworks, films, photo-essays, texts, graphs, images, podcasts, sound experiments, and more.


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Find some impressions of the 2022 opening here.


Video

Our famous interview Staffette has returned! Watch this year's edition featuring a few of the participating spaces of Vorspiel / transmediale & CTM. The 2022 edition marks the 11th anniversary of our initiative and aim to showcase the richness and diversity of Berlin's independent project spaces and artist initiatives.


Video

A look behind the Shared Frame streamed event for Vorspiel 2021 (pandemic edition).


Essay

How we got there and how important it was for Panke.


Essay Artwork

Postcards from the Metaverse speculates on the value of the popular 20th century medium – the postcard – in providing accessible and underrepresented perspectives on a newly- hyped infrastructure


Essay

Former transmediale artistic director Kristoffer Gansing applies a bit of home-grown numerology to reminisce about the secrets of Vorspiel!


Essay

The reSource network has been an extremely valuable resource in the process of establishing and running SPEKTRUM Berlin. It allowed us to connect with like-minded people in the city, to start up new collaborations, and to learn from those facing similar issues in running project spaces.


Essay

The essay summarizes the Czech-Brazilian cultural theorist and media philosopher Vilém Flusser’s ideas on the apparatus, codes, and programmed and manipulated society. He ends his texts by highlighting the importance of artists who might be able to play with and against the apparatus and challenge mass media and their preprogrammed functions.


Essay

From 2011 to 2014, Tatiana Bazzichelli and a team of others designed a sprawling event program called “reSource transmedial culture Berlin,” which picked up on transmediale-related projects and flung them far further.


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Since 2013 designtransfer – the gallery and communicates interface of the Faculty of Design, Berlin University of the Arts (UdK Berlin) and the public – participates yearly at Vorspiel to present various projects as exhibitions, installations, and talks related to their New Media & Design courses.


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Watch a digital interview Staffette with some of the participating spaces of Vorspiel / transmediale & CTM. The 2021 edition marks the 10th anniversary of our initiative and aim to showcase the richness and diversity of Berlin's independent project spaces and artist initiatives in collaboration with transmediale.


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ACT(7)


20:00 –
DOCK 11 / DOCKdigital

Act is an experimental music event series focusing on the intersection of live and electronic sound, AV practices, conceptual DJ sets, and performances. Act(7) takes place in collaboration with DOCK11/DOCKdigital and Vorspiel.

GGG (AV live) Movan (AV live) PP+SIT (live) Boom Boom God (live) nee_nah (set)

GGG is a trumpet player, improviser and composer born in Rosario, Santa Fe, Argentina and currently living in Berlin. He is a performer in many art forms, including free improvisation as well as an experimental repertoire in trumpet with hybrid digital electronic sets and visual installations.

Boom Boom God. Imagine the controversial scientist Erwin Schrödinger encountering the mystic chimera Boom Boom God amid the idyllic flora and fauna of the Swiss Alps — a vision clouded only by the stark presence of a massive concrete dam. This complex meeting of science and chaos, angelic beauty and demonic madness, unfolds as a romantic portrayal of nature’s forces clashing with brutalist architecture and the smog of the Anthropocene. Schrödinger or Boom Boom God is a fake industrial folklore band formed by Florian Kolb (bagpipes & drum pads) and Pablo Ulises Lienhard (crackle synth & sampler). ‘Fake Industrial Folklore’ plays with industrial music clichés while summoning a hauntological nostalgia for traditional or folkloristic sounds — music that feels both familiar and uncanny, perhaps like Schrödinger’s cat: simultaneously dead and alive.

PP+SIT. Layered live percussion rhythms blend with the gritty sound of synthesizers and drum machines, forming an environment of industrial shamanism in which the perception of time and place dissolves. The premiere of a collaboration with Sophia Itskovich Ton (percussion) and Pavel Pakhomov (electronics, percussion, voice).

Movan. Sound performer and visual researcher based in Berlin. focusing on electronic sound culture, diaspora rituality, and experimental narratives. He created dynamic real-time sonic journey of raw textures, field recordings and fractured beats.

nee_nah will open the evening with a slow, introspective journey — murky and stretched-out, shaped by leftfield and ambient textures, deep bass and a sense of growing tension.

Supported by DOCK11 / DOCKdigital

DOCK 11 / DOCKdigital Kastanienallee 79 10435 Berlin

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