Vorspiel

a citywide programme
by spaces and initiatives
around transmediale
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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.


Essay

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.


Video

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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Events Performance, Screening

Bye Bye My Eye: Confirmed. Understood. Over and out.


19:00 –
neue Gesellschaft für bildende Kunst (nGbK)

RADIO TRANSMITTER SONATA. ODE TO COMMUNICATION. Live cinema. Live performance. (c) D’epog.

A video probe into the logbook of a space crew driven to explore, only to explode. A take on discovery, ingenuity, submission, communication, and colonization. Peeking inside the black box of a shipwrecked vessel that sailed into the known. Berlin, you have a problem.

An audiovisual event balancing between live cinema and performance. The format unfolds within a cinematic situation, exploring the principles of chance, unrepeatability, and radical expressivity.

This project emerges from a long-term collaboration between the D’epog collective and Marie and Petr Šprincl — an artistic duo working under the label Flesh&Brain, known for their experimental film projects (Moravia, Beautiful Land, Satan Kingdom Babylon, Vienna Calling, and more.). The sound design is shaped by Prague-based producer, DJ, and composer Mojmír Měchura — a member of the Wrong collective and author of numerous theatre and film scores.

The performance is an intervention in the EastUnBloc exhibition at the nGbK in Berlin. The format reflects the exhibition framework and thematically focuses on the subversive mediality of socialist landscapes in the Eastern Bloc and the tension between free and censored communication as a metaphor for the dividing line of the Iron Curtain.

D’epog (www.depog.com) is a platform for contemporary performance art created by a group of artists that has been active on their home scene in Brno since 2010. Within the framework of its long-term activity, it is dedicated to creating regular productions, one-shot performances, borderline art projects and educational activities in the form of practical and specialized workshops.

neue Gesellschaft für bildende Kunst (nGbK) Karl-Liebknecht-Str. 11/13 10178 Berlin

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