Coding the Archive

The CODING THE ARCHIVE format brings together digital practices of artistic archiving – ranging from projects in memory culture to the documentation of artistic work. Starting at 5:00 PM, visitors can explore various works independently as part of an exhibition. From 6:00 pm, some artists will present their works in short presentations. At 7 p.m., there will be a keynote speech by Anna Norpoth and Felix Fuhg (eCommemoration / Körber Foundation), followed by an opportunity for discussion and chill-out with music. The evening will be moderated by dramaturge and curator Jeanne Charlotte Vogt.

SCHEDULE:
5:00 p.m. – 11:00 p.m. Exhibition
6:00 p.m. Guided tour of the exhibition
7:30 p.m. Keynote speech
8:00 p.m. Discussion, refreshments, chill out with music

TÒ SU - Oh Europa! Dangerous Games

In their performance OH EUROPA! – DANGEROUS GAMES, the German-Italian duo TÒ SU (Martina Mahlknecht & Martin Prinoth) uses VR technology to reconstruct the protagonists' memories of their escape stories on stage.

Philipp Quast - Hier & Damals

The work HIER UND DAMALS deals with the reconstruction of the former Nazi prison camp Kiel-Russee in VR. It establishes spatial relationships between contemporary testimonies and deciphers the historical memory of the place.

Oblivia - Moopa (Museum of Oblivias Performing Arts)

The Finnish performance collective Oblivia is celebrating its 25th anniversary with a museum dedicated to its numerous performances. However, MOOPA is not a real museum, but an online computer game, a small point-and-click adventure.

Concept Oblivia, Sebastian Linz, Felix Ludwig

Game design and visual design Felix Ludwig

Programming Jessica Kremnitzer

Playing time: 10 to 25 minutes | No special language skills required | Recommended for ages 10 and up

Voll:Milch - Nota

The performance collective VOLL:MILCH presents NOTA, a digital tool developed in-house that enables notation, sorting, arrangement, presentation, and archiving, and which is used both for rehearsal documentation and as a stage tool.

Fernanda Ortiz - Radical Forever

Argentinian choreographer Fernanda Ortiz combines artistic practice and archiving in her projects UNFORGETTABLE, RADICAL DANCE SERIES, and BODIES UNDER INFLUENCE. Using AR, VR, and film, she explores memory culture as well as post-digital and decolonial dancing bodies.

Nadine Jessen & Sirwan Ali - Agents of History / Decolonial Gaze / [k]aleidoskop

Under the label “Agents of History,” Kampnagel curators Nadine Jessen and Sirwan Ali work in various project teams using digital technologies to uncover untold stories that can be explored in urban spaces via AR using smartphones.

The work BLCK WRK links historical facts with biographical traces of Black workers in Hamburg.

STATUES OF RESISTANCE tells the story of anti-colonial resistance in four fictional video sculptures.

The intercontinental project DECOLONIAL GAZE explores the connection between Santiago de Chile and the Hanseatic city of Hamburg, which is based on saltpeter mining, and makes it accessible to users via AR and a website.

The [k]aleidoskop app introduces users to the history of the Kampnagel factory during National Socialism and combines long-overdue reappraisal with experimental digital technology.

Keynote Anna Norpoth and Felix Fuhg

Anna Norpoth is a literary scholar interested in the materiality of literary language, social revolutions and cross-media history-telling.
Felix Fuhg is a curator, museologist and historian interested in pop history and formats which explore an experience of the past. Together they curate Körber-Stiftung's eCommemoration programme.

Musical contribution to the Exchange and Chill-Out

Candid Rütter, sound artist and multimedia composer from Hamburg, develops soundscapes between club culture, theater, and performance—associative, semi-fictional, contemporary.