• Akademie der Künste / Hanseatenweg / Studio
A History of Maps in Twelve Worlds

mit Alaa Mansour, Basma al-Sharif, Hannah Jayanti, Alexander Porter, Anna Engelhardt, Mark Cinkevich

  • Screening
Passes only

Vor dem Hintergrund der Vermittlung von räumlichen Darstellungen durch Theater und Spektakel der Kartenerstellung untersuchen die Filme deren Einsatz als Instrumente des Kolonialismus und der militärischen Kontrolle. Basma Alsharifs We Began by Measuring Distance folgt einer anonymen Gruppe, die ihre Zeit damit verbringt, scheinbar harmlose Messungen vorzunehmen, die sich zu politischen Narrativen entwickeln. Alaa Mansours Badlands (the second time as a farce) erforscht Archivmaterial des Fort Irwin National Training Center in den USA – einem Ausbildungszentrum, in dem die US-Armee Gefechtstaktiken und die Bereitschaft ihrer Truppen vor dem Einsatz in echten Kampfzonen testet. Der Film Mission Command von Hannah Jayanti und Alexander Porter erzählt die Geschichte eines Atari-Entwicklers aus den 1980er Jahren, der in einem Videospiel eine Karte über einen Atomkrieg erstellt. In Onset erforschen Anna Engelhardt und Mark Cinkevich die verdeckten Taktiken des russischen Militärs und dessen parasitäre Verbindungen zur Strominfrastruktur.

Basma al-Sharif is a artist working in cinema and installation. She developed her practice nomadically between the Middle East, Europe, and North America and is currently based in Berlin. Her practice looks at cyclical political conflicts and confronts the legacy of colonialism through satirical, immersive, and lyrical works.
Hannah Jayanti is a documentary filmmaker, organizer, and educator. She focuses on process and form as spaces of ethical and political exploration. Her work is centered around questions of place, power, listening, memory, time, and interdependence.
Alexander Porter is an Emmy-award-winning immersive director, documentarian, and educator. Alexander is an inventor and designer behind the first and most widely used software for volumetric video production.
Alaa Mansour is a artist, film-maker, and archivist whose work focuses on histories of violence and the power of images in the age of necropolitics.
Anna Engelhardt is a Russian research-based media artist and writer whose practice examines infrastructures of post-Soviet cyberspace through a decolonial lens, with the overarching aim of dismantling Russian imperialism. Engelhardt is based in London.
Mark Cinkevich is a postcolonial researcher and artist based in Warsaw. Cinkevich’s scholarly focus is on tracking emergent trends in the post-Soviet infrastructural and social landscape, with particular attention to exploring the concepts of nuclear colonialism, infrastructural colonialism, extractivism, and monstrosity.
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