Join us for a six-part online mediation program activating the cosmo-clusters of ARE YOU FOR REAL!
The digital exhibition project ARE YOU FOR REAL enters a new stage: we are delighted to invite you to a six-part online mediation program of guided tours, artist encounters, speculative writing and listening sessions, and an opening lecture by Nelly Y. Pinkrah.
How do technology, computation, and the sciences shape our understanding of “the real”? And how do we distinguish the real from the merely possible, the virtual, the actual, the magical? Since launching in 2020, ARE YOU FOR REAL has evolved into a resonant constellation of “cosmo-clusters” exploring technology’s infrastructural entanglements, regenerative power, magical thinking, tactical agency, predictive ambitions, and haunted nature. Shaped by its diversity of artistic commissions, the platform contends with digitalization and a reality irreducibly entangled with the online sphere.
Now we invite you on a deep dive into the solar systems gathered by ARE YOU FOR REAL through six guided sessions shaped around world-building exercises and reflections on generated realities. Join in whichever mode feels comfortable: Listen in or actively participate, stay for one or join all six.
All events are free and will be hosted via ifa’s open-source Civil Society Platform using BigBlueButton, time is specified as CEST/CET (Berlin timezone). Sign up here.
ARE YOU FOR REAL was initiated by ifa in 2020. Phase 2 is curated by Giulia Bini and Lívia Nolasco-Rózsás, the online mediation program is hosted by Barbara Zoé Kiolbassa.
Events
Online lecture with Nelly Y. Pinkrah: June 11, 6:30pm, on how media and technology constitute what we call reality
Curatorial tour with Lívia Nolasco-Rózsás and Giulia Bini: June 29, 6:30pm, exploring the ARE YOU FOR REAL platform and its cosmo-clusters with its curators
Encounter with artists Tatyana Zambrano and Theodoulos Polyviou: July 15, 6:30pm, a guided tour focusing on works that renegotiate power infrastructures, labor struggles, body, and identity
Writing with artists Moritz Jekat and Caroline Sinders: September 17, 6:30pm, a speculative free-writing session around exercises of world-building
Listening with artists Saša Spačal and Zheng Mahler: October 12, 4pm, an immersive sonic experience and deep listening session
Encounter with artists eeefff and Sara Bezovšek: November 12, 6:30pm, a guided tour focusing on poetic forms of internet critique, online interventions, and interactive websites
About ifa
Together with partners, ifa—Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen champions freedom in art, research, and civil society worldwide, bringing together people who are committed to an open society. It creates analogue and digital spaces for encounter, exchange, negotiation, and co-creation. ifa lends a voice to activists, artists, scholars, and scientists, promotes cooperation, and increasingly pursues its goals jointly with partners. Using its core competencies in art, research, and civil society, ifa builds networks to achieve sustainable results. It is supported by Germany’s Federal Foreign Office, the state of Baden-Württemberg and its capital Stuttgart.
Press contact: presse@ifa.de
