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dgtl fmnsm deals with the emancipatory opportunities offered by technology and feminism. We are an interdisciplinary festival featuring performances, videos, the visual arts, room-sized installations, discourse and workshops – online and IRL. We cooperate with clubs and independent queer feminist groups and artists.

dgtl fmnsm is a feature request for more radical thinking on the routine involvement of digital technologies in a culture currently dominated by the media. The look and theory of dgtl fmnsm’s entertaining art interventions involve participants using their bodies as a meaningful form of expression in a world that is changing course in the light of digital technologies, online culture and political necessity.

Credits
Website 2016-17

dgtl fmnsm #2
#intimacy


second edition
interdisciplinary forward-thinking feminist festival
for a better tomorrow.


Reflecting cyberfeminism’s constant call for new utopian ideologies to improve conditions, the dgtl fmnsm festival will once more be advocating the joyful destabilisation of existing systems, whether that involves re-imagining the gender binary, the patriarchy or the tail end of capitalism.

The omnipresence of digital media technologies and the influence they exert in every field of life are bringing about social transformations which extend even as far as the most intimate issues. Among other things, the question arises of how social media and the datafication of everyday life are affecting the way we see relationships, sexuality and intimacy. Or what other, new forms of interrelations and community will take root in the cracks of biohacking and dating algorithms. To what extent are the concepts of love, family and gender being given a long-due update?

Today’s tools react to their users’ touch with interactive offers of intimacy. But that is not all: surfaces are advancing to the point where they have emotions to be aroused; the acoustic and emotional structure of our relationships with things is undergoing drastic changes. The ping of a text message releases as many hormones as being touched by another human being. If physical technological surfaces respond to our touch, and socio-electronic means of communication arouse emotional responses, then we have long been submitting to the touch of things and machines: what is needed is to explore the effects and potential of this situation, not to deny its existence.

IRL the main hall of Hellerau Festival Theatre will be turning into a multifunctional in-the-round stage. The installation designed by the Dresden artist duo die blaue Distanz provides the basic setting for a session lasting four days, with transmissions being sent and received.

The look and practice of technology-based forms of emancipation are negotiated by artists, activists, theoreticians and viewers as a collective happening and presented, investigated and bolstered during a four-day session. Residencies, sleepovers, installations, performances, Skype-ins, lectures, screenings, workshops, skill sharing and a live online show will offer queer and feminist questions about modern-day intimacy an inclusive space for negotiation. #techpositive – for a better tomorrow!



Programme


Friday
9.3.18
22:30

w/
CRY BABY
Institut fuer Zukunft
Leipzig

Screening / Artist Talk
Nkisi (NON Worldwide)
Eterna (Nova Era) Live A/V
AUCO (No Shade, Cry Baby)
Sinosc (documnt)

FlyFly


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22:30
FILM SCREENING + ARTIST TALK:

PREMIUM CONNECT
[REAL DEAL]
by TABITA REZAIRE
DE⎜2017⎜13 MIN⎜OMU

Artist Talk with dgtl fmnsm curator-in-residence shawné holloway, Nkisi, and more.

23:59 AFTER SHOW:

NKISI [𝔫𝔬𝔫 𝔴𝔬𝔯𝔩𝔡𝔴𝔦𝔡𝔢]
ETERNA [𝔫𝔬𝔳𝔞 𝔢𝔯𝔞] LIVE A/V
AUCO [𝔫𝔬 𝔰𝔥𝔞𝔡𝔢]
SINOSC [𝔡𝔬𝔠𝔲𝔪𝔫𝔱]

One year after Cry Baby brought its collaboration with the queer-feminist festival dgtl fmnsm to Leipzig, it’s time to enter into the 2nd round. Cry Baby finds a unique ally in dgtl fmnsm, which focuses on possibilities and challenges of feminism in this digital age.

The work PREMIUM CONNECT [REAL DEAL], by French-born Guyanese-Danish media artist Tabita Rezaire, takes us within a VR rendering of Google sea, where some internet users believe to have found the location of Atlantis. PREMIUM CONNECT envisions a study of Information and Communication Technologies, exploring African divination systems, the fungi underworld, ancestral communication and quantum physics to (re)think our information conduits. A panel discussion will follow a presentation of this work, presented by dgtl fmnsm in collaboration with shawné holloway.

The after show will feature the Congolese-Belgian visionary Nkisi. As co-founder of NON Worldwide, whose raison d’être is described as «a collective of African artists and of the diaspora, using sound as their primary media to articulate the visible and invisible structures that create binaries in society and, in turn, distribute power.» Nkisi’s sets draw from a wide range of influences from industrial techno to the South African Gqom, providing a sound that is equally relentless and evocative.

Eterna is an up-and-coming artist from Barcelona whose music captures the frantic search for serenity and stimulation in today’s over-saturated digital landscape. He will perform the A/V project «Where Are U Children,» a collaborative work with Uc Ajin, plus new unreleased material. Support comes from two of the most exciting new DJs on the scene; AUCO, the fierce Berlin No Shade resident from London and sinosc, Dresden’s best kept secret young talent.

Nkisi
soundcloud.com/nkisi/
Eterna
soundcloud.com/eternax/
AUCO
soundcloud.com/auco23
sinosc
soundcloud.com/sin-osc/
PREMIUM CONNECT
(REAL DEAL)
VR extract
tabita rezaire
residency profile

Nkisi and sinosc are supported by the 2018 SHAPE platform, which is co-funded by the Creative Europe programme of the European Union.

The event is financially supported by the StuRa of the University of Leipzig, Department for Gender Equality & Lifestyle Policy, for which we would like to thank you very much!

ℭ𝔯𝔶 𝔅𝔞𝔟𝔶 010
@crybbeangel @dgtlfmnsm @cynetart @shapeplatform
Visual Identity by Anja Kaiser
www.ifz.me




Friday
16.3.18
16:00 ‐ 2:00

dgtl fmnsm festival
#intimacy

Festspielhaus Hellerau
Dresden
16:00 ‐ 19:00


#Skill Sharing
Workshop Music Production
with Antje Meichsner

seats limited, (6 €),
please enroll via
dgtlfmnsm@hellerau.org

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Antje Meichsner / Shannon Soundquist is a radio maker and sound artist, studied history of arts, psychology and communication science and engaged since years in feminist and antiracial structures in Dresden. She promotes as a part of the DJ collective ProZecco women*, that love to play out their interests in music and deejay. Her own sounds are based on the de- and reconstruction of electronical technoid sound material which Meichsner infers with linguistic admissions, which circle around the condition of the subject in the modern society.

In framework to the dgtl fmnsm festival, she is going to share her knowledge and her musicial and artistic expertise in the workshop a breath in the microphone – intimacy in the ear. Meichsner will be also take part in the opening event as Shannon Soundquist and present her audioperformance Zu viele Worte und trotzdem zu wenig gesagt.

Workshop: A breath in the microphone – intimacy in the ear

Here are just the two of you, you and the microphone. Sounds, tones, words falls from your mouth. You meet from another side, suddenly you’re here differently. How does this feel? And then you go closer and closer to the microphone. What happens now, in this feedback loop of your body, so near to yourself? The 3 hours workshop offers participants the possibility to artistically experiment with sounds to put apart to tones and texts and to join itself skillfully. Everybody for themselves or together going to learn effective strategies and technologies to generate, alienate and rythmically your own voice. Aim is the production of experimental and quite individual audiotracks.

Please bring:
Your own laptop
Installation of Audacity (or another DAW, e.g. Ableton Live)
(closed) earphones
If you have: short texts

Soundcloud
Facebook
Mixcloud
19:00
Opening of the exhibition
in presence of the artists
20:00
Intimacy 1
introduction / talk

dgtl fmnsm curators Ulla Heinrich and Konstanze Schütze

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Konstanze Schütze is a curator and reseracher in art education, living and working in Berlin. Her academic work focuses on ’Updates for an art education after the Internet’. She is co-founder and director at the gallery project ’storecontemporary.com’. Amongst other institutional and non-institutional projects, she was co-curator of the exhibition ’Pizza is God’ at NRW-Forum Düsseldorf and editor of ’Pizza is God - the Reader’. For ’agencyart.education’ and ’methode mandy’ she is actively engaged in art education as a critical practice.

Ulla Heinrich works in HELLERAU European Center for the Arts Dresden as Head of Digital Communication and Special Projects. She is a cultural educator, cultural manager, feminist activist and promoter in Dresden, responsable for the PorYes – Feminist Porn Awards Europe, every other year in Berlin, and co-founder of the queer feminist network and collective böse&gemein.

21:00
GLEAM #3
Call, Connect
Live-Online-Performance-Show

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GLEAM, in its third programme, presents CALL, CONNECT. Through a series of commissioned performances, we call Don Washington (Chicago, IL), Richard Kennedy (New York, NY), Ei Jane Janet Lin (Chicago, IL), Paula Nacif (London, UK), Daglara and Viscosity (Athens, GR) to join us #LIVE. From their own moments, from their own locations, they come to share with us what is available in the present : a song, a conversation, a point of view, and a word. The evening invites us all to inhabit a shared space through consenting to witness and to be witnessed in 4 consecutive, 10 minute blocks of time. While each performance is showing locally at the festival, the festival is streaming it back onto the net.

The uninterrupted content broadcast connects us all to the the world wide web and the emotions that get caught there in its constantly flowing stream of data. CALL, CONNECT is at once a document, a film, a play, a movie, a chat room, and an invitation. What it isn’t is static or definable. How do we connect with others who are far away? How do we feel their presence and intention through a space that always already distorts the transmission? Does a call evoke yearning? What about warmth?

GLEAM #03: CALL, CONNECT
Curators and moderation : shawné michaelain holloway and Georges Jacotey
In collaboration with Josefine Soppa

DAGLARA&VISCOSITY
Viscosity (aka Katerina Louloudi) is a drag artist and performer based in Athens, Greece. She is currently studying in the Fine Arts School of Athens. Daglara (aka Nikolaos Tsironis) is a fashion designer and drag artist based in Athens, Greece. He has studied fashion in the Royal Academy of Antwerp and he is running his own clothing label since 2015. Together, they are the House of Skorpina, collaborating on art projects, hosting and performing in queer parties in the underground athenian nightlife.
https://www.instagram.com/daglara_experience/
https://www.instagram.com/viscosity__/

RICHARD KENNEDY
Richard Kennedy is a composer, choreographer, and librettist living and working in Hudson , New York while attending Milton Avery Institute (Bard MFA). Richard has presented work recently at Moma Ps1, Artists Space, Danspace, Performa17, Moma, The Studio Museum and Segue Foundation.

DON WASHINGTON JR
Don Washington is an web based artist using video, photography, sound, and writing to navigate personal narratives based in public spaces aka da web. Currently finishing up their BFA at the School of the Art Institute of School. Their work is investigation into the onlines effect on the offline. They have exhibited at Dfbrl8r (Chicago), and Archer Beach House (Chicago). More of their work can be seen at https://vimeo.com/user44791294 and @raw_nda_ on Instagram

xXxtra.Princess
xXxtra.Princess are princesses.
xXxtra.Princess have extracted all knowledge from #WHYPpl and defeated the imperialist, capitalist, ablelist, cis-heteronormative, white supremacist patriarchy.
xXxtra.Princess are weapons/products against/for mass destruction.
xXxtra.Princess are princesses because everyone died.
You can be an xXxtra.Princess too. All you have to do is #Feel.
xXxtra.Princess is currently incorporated by Paula Pinho Martins Nacif and Ei Jane Janet Lin.
http://xxxtraprincess.world/

22:00
shawné michaelain holloway
The Evolution of
LIVE performances online

lecture

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In her works, the dgtl fmnsm curator-in-residence shawné michaelain holloway examines the correlation between identities and social networks. To achieve this, her interdisciplinary work with sounds, visual material and performances makes use of the freedom of the Internet from various perspectives, while at the same time subjecting it to critical examination. Through her pieces on the subjects of gender, control, identity and sexuality, she studies aspects of her own self-depiction and the way others perceive it. Attracted by all kinds of online scenes, she makes the most of the fact that she can digitally change personas and independently defines herself as who she wants to be, even in the face of her own moral conflicts – alternating between fiction, her real, socially shaped body and learned dogmas. Back at the first dgtl fmnsm festival, shawné michaelain holloway developed the concept for the live online show GLEAM, which will be on the programme again this year.

During a one-week residency, shawné michaelain holloway will be developing a presentation on “the evolution of live performances online” for the festival opening night.

In addition to her arrangement as artist-in-residence for the Center for Afrofuturist Studies in Iowa, she has also already presented her works in New York, Paris, Helsinki and London.

shawnemichaelainholloway.com
22:30
Shannon Soundquist:
So viel geredet und
trotzdem nichts gesagt
audio performance
22:45
Young Boy Dancing Group
Performance

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Young Boy Dancing Group is a collective of contemporary dancers whose performances are a mixture of a queer show and techno-futurism. The YBDG use their performances to challenge normative notions of gender and sexuality. Their fragmentary choreographies are shown at art fairs, galleries and London nightclubs. By imitating movements from daily life, they create spaces for defamiliarisation, the aim being to create a new form of intimacy together – spaces for friendship, desire, queer alliances – and to constantly call institutionalised art settings into question.

With: Ivan Monteiro, Tarren Johnson, Maria Metsalu, Nicolas Roses, Manuel Scheiwiller, Vincent Riebeek, Nils Amadeus Lange

www.instagram.com/_ybdgofficial/
www.facebook.com/YBDGofficial/
contemporarycruising.com
00:00
BBB_
Fully Accessible Body
Performance

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As BBB_, Alla Poppersoni and Alexander Sahm have been working since 2015 at point where music, performance, art, design and philosophy all come together. Fully Accessible Body is a new production especially for dgtl fmnsm, a large-format participative event during which intimate experiences are shared with the audience by means of technology. With the help of augmented reality, the interactive performance explores how control is taken of digital bodies in an interplay between real performers and interactive cyber-avatars. HoloLens smartglasses reveal bodies which are controlled by the audience’s bio-feedback.



CREDITS
By BBB_
Alla Poppersoni & Alexander Sahm

In collaboration with Janna Gaede und Fabian Schöfer

Performance:
Anja Arncken, Dominik Keggenhoff, Mar Rodriguez Valverde

Visuals & grafics:
Japparri, Obby1000, Pia Graf


FFK
00:30
Nkisi
a system of systems;
the pattern of patterns in being.
Live-DJ-Set

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Die kongolesisch-belgische Produzentin und DJ Melika Ngombe Kolongo, alias Nkisi, ist Mitbegründerin von NON Worldwide, einem Kollektiv afrikanischer Künstler*innen, die sich als Netzwerk und Musiker*innen gegen sichtbare und unsichtbare Machtstrukturen sowie strukturelle Ungleichheiten in der elektronischen Musik engagiert. In ihren Sets verarbeitet die Künstlerin Einflüsse aus der zentral- und westafrikanischen Clubszene, mit einem Feingefühl für die richtige Mischung aus Punkattitüde und modernen Elektro- und Technoeinflüssen. Ihre unnachgiebigen Sounds verneinen jeden Systemzwang und bejaen gleichzeitig die tanzende Masse.

In einer einwöchigen Residenz wird Nkisi ein neues Live-Set erarbeiten, welches exklusiv im Rahmen der Festivaleröffnung präsentiert wird.

Festival warm-up at Institut für Zukunft, Leipzig: Cry Baby x dgtl fmnsm w/ Nkisi, Eterna (live), screening + talk

NKISI wird von der Plattform SHAPE 2018 unterstützt, die vom Programm Creative Europe der Europäischen Union kofinanziert wird.

soundcloud.com/nkisi/
Exhibitions | Installations

Interactive Installation by
die Blaue Distanz
Great Hall
+ Please bring your home slippers!

Lorna Mills
Ungentrified (2018 edition)
Dalcroze Room

BBB_ Fully Accessible Body

Line Finderup Jensen
I Warn others of slippery conditions, so that everyone can walk with caution
interactive video | Great Hall

Melo Börner
Baby, I’m a bunch of layers | ∞ | 2018
video projection

Melo Börner
And I wanna touch them all
pillow

Hanna Kucera
Refresh, it’s so fresh | 06:21 min | 2017

Martin Wiesinger
Animation der Vorstellung meiner Großmutter, aus Schlesien kommend | 0:36 min | 2016 Gemälde | 0:20 min | 2016 Traum, die Treppe hinunter | 0:53 min | 2016/18 Die Null | 0:21 min | 2016/18

Also:
journalist accompany by KVTV (Kulturvotzen Television, Frankfurt)

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on the exhibition


die Blaue Distanz
#enjoy – deserve



DGTL FMSNM space-design

concept, video, sound by die Blaue Distanz (Anna Erdmann & Franziska Goralski)

The central forum for the negotiation of digital forms of intimacy becomes physically tangible in this utopian feminist space designed by the Dresden artist duo the blue distance. The interior design provides the basic setting for a three-day-long session of transmitting and receiving information, with everyone involved being able to freely select where they stay and carry out activities.

Waterꕀ Source means refreshment, the first step in cleansing and improving your moisture balance all in one, free of charge. Join your local bottlegäng and get your deposit back. Deposits returned at entrance/exit!

Snack﹆ Source gives us coated mouthfuls. These tidbits ensheathed in flour – concentrated and sweet – contain a creamy centre of sesame, adzukis or peanuts. For between, before and after meals.

Massageꘐ Source means contact with yourself and others. There are two compartments: one that you can use on your own and another where A, J and T share their connection to touch with us. Will I or won’t I allow a stranger intimate contact with me? Do I see intimacy as connected to sexuality or not? Become aware of what is happening in your tissues, giving some thought to your feet, your stomach, the movement of your eyes. We discuss beforehand what the massage will include and what not. For the latest updates and time slots, see the profiles at Massage-Source itself. We look forward to seeing you!

The forecourts of the temples invite visitors to explore: to read manifestos on the flokati rug, to get closer to a whisper by means of a joystick or to come up with utopian ideas in the “cool-up area”. May your wells run deep༉.

www.lilacpop.de
www.annaerdmann.de
www.franziskagoralski.de


Line Finderup Jensen



Line Finderup Jensen, a danish artist, shows in her interactive video simulation „Warn others of slippery conditions, so that everyone can walk with caution“ an experience she had herself once at the Oberlaa therme in Vienna. Visitors are invited to take part in the game and navigate around a memory while creating their own. Line Finderup Jensen’s work deals with hegemonic structures and how we experience them, whilst exploring how gaming can be used as a tool in narrating documentaries.


Melo Börner






Lorna Mills



The young festival has managed to secure a luminary of digital art production, the Canadian artist Lorna Mills. To create her dizzying animations and GIFs, installations and videos, Mills builds a collage of images found online that are awkward, offensive and consistently absurd. Her works reflect our current digital culture, its look, speed and narratives in a cultural kaleidoscope of statements from the media ranging from 4chain to pornhub. Like few other female artists of her time, she has the ability to turn the intimacy of online visual worlds into an immersive situation in the physical world of the exhibition.


KULTUR VOTZEN TV



In the mega-artistic summer of 2017, a group of curators, artists and a lawyer set off for the Documenta in Athens. Overwhelmed by the diversity of the city and learned from Athens, we founded KVTV. A culture blog that determines what is talked about. We show what we find interesting from the big and small exhibitions, museums, vernissages and biennials. We’ll come to your vernissage and maybe you’ll be lucky and we’ll make a nice video about you! So be curious when it’s yo yo yo yo KVTV again....

Instagram kv_television




Saturday
17.3.18
14:00 ‐ 2:00

dgtl fmnsm festival
#intimacy
Festspielhaus Hellerau
Dresden

Exhibition open
14:00

Why tec is boring in dance
artist summit @Tanzplattform live
with Katja Cheraneva
and further guests |
Discussion
15:00

#Skill Sharing
Twerkshop with KVTV
15:00 - 18:00
#Skill Sharing
DJ-Workshop
with Ena Lind (MINT Berlin)


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Ena Lind has been pushing boundaries in the electronic music scene in Berlin for over a decade. She is a political minded DJ, producer and co-founder of the network MINT. Since many years she promots women in the electronic music scene and shares her knowledge in workshops. MINT has now grown from a party to a booking agency with feminist approach.

For dgtl fmnsm Ena Lind connects day and night: in the afternoon she teachs a DJ workshop a spart of the festivals’ #skillsharing programme and at night she will become part of the amazing aftershowparty line up at objekt klein a.

Workshop:

During the 3 hours workshop the participants learn about the technology of hanging up with vinyls, explained by first steps. You do not need previous knowledge! After an extra introduction into the equipment the participants can prove their awareness.

The membership is defined by 10, please apply per mail at dgtlfmnsm@hellerau.org.--> The workshop is fully booked.

www.enalind.com
www.facebook.com/EnaLind
soundcloud.com/enalind
www.mintberlinbooking
16:00
#Skill Sharing
asmr Session with BBB_
asmr = Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response
17:00
Talking Intimacy II
(in German language)
A talk on Digital Intimacy Curating and Space with the artists Anna Erdmann, Franziska Goralski (Blaue Distanz), the journalist and curator Anika Meier (Virtual Normality, Leipzig) and the curator and director of peer-to-space, Tina Sauerländer, moderated by Leona Lenßen.

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When the ping of a short message, releases just as many hormones as a touch of a person. What happens to our routines? Online offers of social media, dating apps and pocket-porn applications draw the interpersonal space of physical approximation into the abstraction of images and text-to-text communication and becomes virtuality real. How do artists and curators deal with this? Tina Sauerländer, Anika Meier and Blaue Distanz present their projects and talk about sensation, closeness, distance and illusion after the so called Virtual Reality has become a reality. Tina Sauerländer, Anika Meier and Blaue Distanz present their projects and talk about touch, closeness, distance and illusion after which Virtual Reality becomes a new reality.

Tina Sauerländer is a curator and writer based in Berlin. She focuses on the impact of the digital and the internet on individual environments and society. With her exhibition hub peer to space she has been organizing international group shows, e.g The Unframed World. Virtual Reality as Artistic Medium for the 21st Century at HeK Basel in 2017. She is co-founder of Radiance, an online platform for artistic VR experiences. She is a PhD candidate at The University of Art and Design Linz, Austria, and a board member of the media arts society in Berlin.

www.peertospace.eu
www.radiancevr.co
www.medienkunstverein.com

Anika Meier lives in Berlin and Hamburg and works as an author and curator who writes for magazines such as Monopol about art and social media. Lately she curated the exhibition „Virtual Normality, Netzwerkkünstlerinnen 2.0“ in Museum der bildenden Künste Leipzig and „On the Internet, nobody knows you’re a performance artist Andy Kassier & Signe Pierce“ in the context of the Duesseldorf Photo Week. Since 2011 she posts her photos on Instagram as @anika and uses Twitter as @arte_fakt. She is the founder of the collective "This Ain’t Art School" (@thisaintartschool), which uses Instagram to approach photographic issues and lately worked with Joel Meyerowitz in cooperation with C/O Berlin and Alec Soth in cooperation with the Deichtorhallen Hamburg.

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18:00
Tinder Tendencies
Live-Online-Show
from GOLD + BETON, Köln
by Tabea Venrath & Miriam J. Carranza
Scenic Reading

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„Do you think we can ever meet up?“ - „No. Never... We are no humans. We are messages – only.”

Promising romantic and sexual encounters the popular dating-app tinder connects two interested users by chat. The following „dramaturgy of dating“ implies a meeting of the couple in „real life“ - realising the intentional promise. Tinder Tendencies explores the potentialities of intimate spaces and the mediation of platonic relationships apart from the inherent logic of the dating-app. During a live-online-show various speakers get caught up in conversion and interaction based on fictional and actual tinder chat dialogues.

The scenic reading by Tabea Venrath takes place within the installation Platonic Paradise created by Miriam J. Carranza (in collaboration with Lotte Meret Effinger). Platonic Paradise questions the dimensions of the digital self and the potentials of friendship, emotion and affection mediated through technology. The performance takes place in the GOLD+BETON (Cologne) and presented via live-stream as part of dgtl fmnsm in Dresden.

19:00
Talking Intimacy 3
artist panel & lecture
with Paula Kommoss.

Lecture by art historian and curator Paula Kommoss and a conversation with Stephanie Comilang and Simon Speiser (tbc)

 

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Paula Kommoss is a curator and art historian living and working in Frankfurt. Her academic work centres around notions of intimacy and touch within contemporary art. She studied art history in Freiburg, Bochum and London and recently worked as a curatorial assistant for the German Pavilion at the 57th Venice Biennial, which won theGolden Lion for Anne Imhof’s Faust. As a curatorial assistant to Susanne Pfeffer at the Fridericianum, Kassel, she worked on several exhibitions such as Images, Anicka Yi, Tetsumi Kudo and Loretta Fahrenholz. Looking at the notion of touch in her intimacy talk, she will investigate if the omnipresence of digital tools genuinely leads to alienationand depression, are we heading towards becoming self-absorbed entities with no feelings or desire for others?

20:00
Stephanie Comilang & Simon Speiser
Dejavu: the smile you are smiling, you were smiling then but I can’t remember where or when
Residence Showing

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As artists in residence at dgtl fmnsm, Stephanie Comilang and Simon Speiser are working on a collaborative film/ installation involving Paradise, a fictional character played by a drone. In previous works by Comilang, Paradise surfaces as a disembodied voice who speaks of connectedness through adaptation, bodies as archives, and entangled narratives of possible futurities. In this new work, Speiser’s daughter Lotte, who was born in Ecuador, where Speiser’s family is from, lends her voice and knowledge to the fictional character of Paradise. For people like Lotte, born in one place and moved to another, home is an amorphous thing. The familiarity of two places creates a feeling of constant-déja-vu, similar to the card game of Memory, in which the player attempts to pair one card with another. What could this space of deja-vu look like?

21:00
Georges Jacotey
Georgina and the Dragon
Residenz-Showing

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GEORGES JACOTEY is a media and performance artist based in Athens. Their work examines notions of gender-queer representation and "ironic" misandry, and has been recently shown at Manifesta 11 (Zürich), CODE art fair (Copenhagen), Nu Performance Festival (Tallinn) and dgtlfmnsm (Dresden), among other places. They have attended the Film Studies department of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, from which they dropped out for reasons pertaining to the greek economic crisis of 2008. Since 2015, Jacotey and their partner, fashion designer Nikolaos Tsironis, co-run the femme clothing brand DAGLARA.

Georgiana and the Dragon

It was during the great persecution that Georgiana left her little village in pursuit of Greatness. God had placed the divine call within her heart but gave her no directions other than to travel as far from home as possible. She toured continental Europe for years, until the day she reached imperial Dresda, where it was meant to meet her destiny. As the popular legend goes, she slew the dragon who had been casting a shadow of death over the city. But sadly her convictions were unpopular to the people of Dresda who eventually decided to do away with her.

Georgiana and the Dragon is a pastiche of a performance that likens art careerism to competitive sainthood and identity politics to actual martyrdom. In this dramatic reenactment, Georges Jacotey parodies his own delusions of grandeur as an unrepresented contemporary artist.

http://georgesjacotey.com/
 
22:00
BBB_
Fully Accessible Body
Performance

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As BBB_, Alla Poppersoni and Alexander Sahm have been working since 2015 at point where music, performance, art, design and philosophy all come together. Fully Accessible Body is a new production especially for dgtl fmnsm, a large-format participative event during which intimate experiences are shared with the audience by means of technology. With the help of augmented reality, the interactive performance explores how control is taken of digital bodies in an interplay between real performers and interactive cyber-avatars. HoloLens smartglasses reveal bodies which are controlled by the audience’s bio-feedback.



CREDITS
By BBB_
Alla Poppersoni & Alexander Sahm

In collaboration with Janna Gaede und Fabian Schöfer

Performance:
Anja Arncken, Dominik Keggenhoff, Mar Rodriguez Valverde

Visuals & grafics:
Japparri, Obby1000, Pia Graf


FFK
23:00
For you Katrina
Concert

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„Do it
Told me voices in my mind
When I gone wild“


For you Katrina is an audiovisual music project by a Berlin-based artist and producer, performing under the name Meta. Their music is a combination of dark ambient and experimental electronic with bits of techno and electro-pop, and a emotional and strong vocal performance. The visual presentation of the project is as important as the music itself. The artist performs in selfmade costumes with extravagant post-gender styles. For you Katrina’s music and stage persona combines strong spiritual and emotional experiences with the invitation to dance and celebrate love and freedom.

The EP HIGH NOTES was published in 2017 as the third album of For you Katrina.

HIGH NOTES (2017)
Moon Allee (2016)
For you Katrina (2014)



Saturday
17.3.18
23:00
XXY clubbing
at objekt klein a, Dresden
Meschwitzstraße 9
01099 Dresden
FlyFly

Charlotte Bendiks
(Cómeme, Tromsø) – MUSIC
Ena Lind (Mint, Berlin) – MUSIC
Johanna Schneider
(Boss Musik, Stockholm) – MUSIC
Karima F (Jaeger, Oslo) – MUSIC
Lola Luc (BCR, Berlin) – MUSIC
Violet (Naivetrax, Lissabon) – MUSIC

/Artwork by Aeni Kaiser
www.instagram.com/aeni.kaiser

a cooperation betvveen objekt klein a, XXY_, dgtl fmnsm

⊘ no hate - just love ♡



Sunday
18.3.18
14:00 ‐ 20:00

dgtl fmnsm festival
#intimacy
Festspielhaus Hellerau
Dresden

free entry today
Exhibition open

dgtl fmnsm Matinee
Coffee & Cakes
with fries & canned beer

Mit dieser Matinee wird untersucht, wie Intimität unter die Haut geht (KRAUSE Tattoos), was Intimität und Beziehungen mit Kapitalismus zu tun haben (Eva Illouz debating club) und wie Intimität als Grundlage für politische Vernetzung Strukturen verändern kann (Feat. Fem* Leipzig Vernetzungstreffen mit Dresdner Gruppen).

from 14:00
Open Decks for FLIT* DJs, producers and musicians
14:00
KRAUSE Live Intimacy Tattoos

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Intimate with the needle

The queer/feminist tattoo artist and illustrator Krause has already put together an impressive tour plan for this year, with guest appearances from Budapest to Lyon.
In her dotwork style, simplicity meets black humour and the aesthetic cornerstones of Generation Giphy. Her tattoos are rather like you might imagine her customers: at once sharp-witted and playfully reticent. Krause’s motifs are inspired both by the simplicity of everyday objects and by the female* body. Her tattoos are all about female* intimacy – a naked body, a hug, a woman with her arms wound tightly around her knees. This is rarely how we show ourselves to strangers. Krause inks this permanently into others’ skin.

Krause will be at the launch of dgtl fmnsm on Sunday to study INTIMACY from her own individual perspective. As a tattoo artist, she regularly touches people on private parts of their body, causes them pain and happiness and is extremely intimate with them for short periods of time.

Starting to feel the urge? Krause has developed an exclusive flash for you and us that is already waiting to be won. Take part now and with a bit of luck you can have a genuine KRAUSE inked under your skin on Sunday at the festival.

Enter by emailing
dgtlfmnsm@hellerau.org

An intimate moment and an intimate message that will really get under your skin – Krause and you.

instagram.com/krause_tattoo
14:30
#Skill Sharing
Intimacy, Relationships, Capitalism
Eva Illouz Debating Club
with Katharina Klappheck

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14:30
#Skill Sharing
Curating and handling a lot of artists
Lorna Mills & Paul Barsch
16:00 - 18:00
interconnection:
Feat. Female Leipzig
visits Dresden
18:00
Showcase Pussykrew

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Ewelina Aleksandrowicz and Andrzej Wojtas are Polish digital media artists and video directors working under the moniker Pussykrew. They have lived and worked in numerous countries, developing their projects across multiple areas of art and technology.

Pussykrew creates multimedia installations, video clips, av experiences and sculptures, exploring spaces in between digital-physical realms, fluid identities, and futuristic landscapes, through artistic experimentation with 3D animation and 3D scanning.
Their fascination for virtually generated environments motivates them to play with the contrast between deconstructed digital images and sterile cinematic poetry, using the traditional language of painting. By dealing with the issues of materiality, they’re creating new synthetic-organic forms that are constantly in the process of mutation.

In the last ten years, they have been presenting their collaborative work at international film festivals, art galleries, tech fairs and activation events, including Saatchi Gallery London, Berlin Art Week, Postmasters Gallery - New York, Museum of Contemporary Art Shanghai, Carnegie Mellon University, Art Center Nabi - Seoul, European Media Art Festival, Transmediale and 3D Printshow - London, Paris and Berlin (Artist of the Year Award).

Pussykrew is currently a member of NEW INC - New Museum’s art and technology incubator in New York.



​http://hybrid-universe-emulation.net

Selected Press:
ArtSlant
FADER
NYLON
Creators
Beautiful Decay
18:30
HK (live)
19:00
Urin (live)

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19:30
Cuntroaches (live)

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cuntroaches.bandcamp.com



Monday
19.3.18
20:00 ‐ 22:00
Feature Ring
dgtl fmnsm special
Festspielhaus Hellerau
Dresden
w/ Magic Island

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Magic Island is the digital version of the Canadian Emma Czerny. For some years now, she has been brewing hot stuff from Lo-Fi, RnB and Dream Pop. If these terms do not mean anything to you, rest assured, you will experience breathtaking sound like under water: bell-clear voices of enchanting meekness draw us into the suction of a new state of matter.

magicisland.bandcamp.com
YT Playlist



Save Dates in Calendar
Download Programme PDF (Updated March 15)







ARTISTS / PARTICIPANTS


Lorna Mills
shawné michaelain holloway
Nkisi
BBB_
Young boy dancing group
Georges Jacotey
the blue distance
Shannon Soundquist
Magic Island
KVTV
KRAUSE
Katharina Klappheck
Anika Meier
Ena Lind
For you Katrina
Cuntroaches
Stephanie Comilang & Simon Speiser
Feat. Female Leipzig
Urin
Line Finderup Jensen
Melo Börner
Tabea Venrath & Miriam J. Carranza
Tabita Rezaire
Pussykrew
HK
Paula Kommoss





Lorna Mills

The young festival has managed to secure a luminary of digital art production, the Canadian artist Lorna Mills. To create her dizzying animations and GIFs, installations and videos, Mills builds a collage of images found online that are awkward, offensive and consistently absurd. Her works reflect our current digital culture, its look, speed and narratives in a cultural kaleidoscope of statements from the media ranging from 4chain to pornhub. Like few other female artists of her time, she has the ability to turn the intimacy of online visual worlds into an immersive situation in the physical world of the exhibition.

shawné michaelain holloway

In her works, the dgtl fmnsm curator-in-residence shawné michaelain holloway examines the correlation between identities and social networks. To achieve this, her interdisciplinary work with sounds, visual material and performances makes use of the freedom of the Internet from various perspectives, while at the same time subjecting it to critical examination. Through her pieces on the subjects of gender, control, identity and sexuality, she studies aspects of her own self-depiction and the way others perceive it. Attracted by all kinds of online scenes, she makes the most of the fact that she can digitally change personas and independently defines herself as who she wants to be, even in the face of her own moral conflicts – alternating between fiction, her real, socially shaped body and learned dogmas. Back at the first dgtl fmnsm festival, shawné michaelain holloway developed the concept for the live online show GLEAM, which will be on the programme again this year.

During a one-week residency, shawné michaelain holloway will be developing a presentation on “the evolution of live performances online” for the festival opening night.

In addition to her arrangement as artist-in-residence for the Center for Afrofuturist Studies in Iowa, she has also already presented her works in New York, Paris, Helsinki and London.

shawnemichaelainholloway.com

Nkisi

Die kongolesisch-belgische Produzentin und DJ Melika Ngombe Kolongo, alias Nkisi, ist Mitbegründerin von NON Worldwide, einem Kollektiv afrikanischer Künstler*innen, die sich als Netzwerk und Musiker*innen gegen sichtbare und unsichtbare Machtstrukturen sowie strukturelle Ungleichheiten in der elektronischen Musik engagiert. In ihren Sets verarbeitet die Künstlerin Einflüsse aus der zentral- und westafrikanischen Clubszene, mit einem Feingefühl für die richtige Mischung aus Punkattitüde und modernen Elektro- und Technoeinflüssen. Ihre unnachgiebigen Sounds verneinen jeden Systemzwang und bejaen gleichzeitig die tanzende Masse.

In einer einwöchigen Residenz wird Nkisi ein neues Live-Set erarbeiten, welches exklusiv im Rahmen der Festivaleröffnung präsentiert wird.

Festival warm-up at Institut für Zukunft, Leipzig: Cry Baby x dgtl fmnsm w/ Nkisi, Eterna (live), screening + talk

NKISI wird von der Plattform SHAPE 2018 unterstützt, die vom Programm Creative Europe der Europäischen Union kofinanziert wird.

soundcloud.com/nkisi/

BBB_

As BBB_, Alla Poppersoni and Alexander Sahm have been working since 2015 at point where music, performance, art, design and philosophy all come together. Fully Accessible Body is a new production especially for dgtl fmnsm, a large-format participative event during which intimate experiences are shared with the audience by means of technology. With the help of augmented reality, the interactive performance explores how control is taken of digital bodies in an interplay between real performers and interactive cyber-avatars. HoloLens smartglasses reveal bodies which are controlled by the audience’s bio-feedback.

CREDITS
By BBB_
Alla Poppersoni & Alexander Sahm

In collaboration with Janna Gaede und Fabian Schöfer

Performance:
Anja Arncken, Dominik Keggenhoff, Mar Rodriguez Valverde

Visuals & grafics:
Japparri, Obby1000, Pia Graf


FFK

Young Boy Dancing Group

Young Boy Dancing Group is a collective of contemporary dancers whose performances are a mixture of a queer show and techno-futurism. The YBDG use their performances to challenge normative notions of gender and sexuality. Their fragmentary choreographies are shown at art fairs, galleries and London nightclubs. By imitating movements from daily life, they create spaces for defamiliarisation, the aim being to create a new form of intimacy together – spaces for friendship, desire, queer alliances – and to constantly call institutionalised art settings into question.

With: Ivan Monteiro, Tarren Johnson, Maria Metsalu, Nicolas Roses, Manuel Scheiwiller, Vincent Riebeek, Nils Amadeus Lange

www.instagram.com/_ybdgofficial/
www.facebook.com/YBDGofficial/
contemporarycruising.com

GEORGES JACOTEY

GEORGES JACOTEY is a media and performance artist based in Athens. Their work examines notions of gender-queer representation and "ironic" misandry, and has been recently shown at Manifesta 11 (Zürich), CODE art fair (Copenhagen), Nu Performance Festival (Tallinn) and dgtlfmnsm (Dresden), among other places. They have attended the Film Studies department of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, from which they dropped out for reasons pertaining to the greek economic crisis of 2008. Since 2015, Jacotey and their partner, fashion designer Nikolaos Tsironis, co-run the femme clothing brand DAGLARA.

Georgiana and the Dragon

It was during the great persecution that Georgiana left her little village in pursuit of Greatness. God had placed the divine call within her heart but gave her no directions other than to travel as far from home as possible. She toured continental Europe for years, until the day she reached imperial Dresda, where it was meant to meet her destiny. As the popular legend goes, she slew the dragon who had been casting a shadow of death over the city. But sadly her convictions were unpopular to the people of Dresda who eventually decided to do away with her.

Georgiana and the Dragon is a pastiche of a performance that likens art careerism to competitive sainthood and identity politics to actual martyrdom. In this dramatic reenactment, Georges Jacotey parodies his own delusions of grandeur as an unrepresented contemporary artist.

http://georgesjacotey.com/

the blue distance

Anna Erdmann & Franziska Goralski


the blue distance
#enjoy – deserve

DGTL FMSNM space-design

concept, video, sound by die Blaue Distanz (Anna Erdmann & Franziska Goralski)

The central forum for the negotiation of digital forms of intimacy becomes physically tangible in this utopian feminist space designed by the Dresden artist duo the blue distance. The interior design provides the basic setting for a three-day-long session of transmitting and receiving information, with everyone involved being able to freely select where they stay and carry out activities.

Waterꕀ Source means refreshment, the first step in cleansing and improving your moisture balance all in one, free of charge. Join your local bottlegäng and get your deposit back. Deposits returned at entrance/exit!

Snack﹆ Source gives us coated mouthfuls. These tidbits ensheathed in flour – concentrated and sweet – contain a creamy centre of sesame, adzukis or peanuts. For between, before and after meals.

Massageꘐ Source means contact with yourself and others. There are two compartments: one that you can use on your own and another where A, J and T share their connection to touch with us. Will I or won’t I allow a stranger intimate contact with me? Do I see intimacy as connected to sexuality or not? Become aware of what is happening in your tissues, giving some thought to your feet, your stomach, the movement of your eyes. We discuss beforehand what the massage will include and what not. For the latest updates and time slots, see the profiles at Massage-Source itself. We look forward to seeing you!

The forecourts of the temples invite visitors to explore: to read manifestos on the flokati rug, to get closer to a whisper by means of a joystick or to come up with utopian ideas in the “cool-up area”. May your wells run deep༉.

www.lilacpop.de
www.annaerdmann.de
www.franziskagoralski.de

Shannon Soundquist

Antje Meichsner / Shannon Soundquist is a radio maker and sound artist, studied history of arts, psychology and communication science and engaged since years in feminist and antiracial structures in Dresden. She promotes as a part of the DJ collective ProZecco women*, that love to play out their interests in music and deejay. Her own sounds are based on the de- and reconstruction of electronical technoid sound material which Meichsner infers with linguistic admissions, which circle around the condition of the subject in the modern society.

Soundcloud
Facebook
Mixcloud

Magic Island

Magic Island is the digital version of the Canadian Emma Czerny. For some years now, she has been brewing hot stuff from Lo-Fi, RnB and Dream Pop. If these terms do not mean anything to you, rest assured, you will experience breathtaking sound like under water: bell-clear voices of enchanting meekness draw us into the suction of a new state of matter.

magicisland.bandcamp.com
YT Playlist

KULTUR VOTZEN TV


In the mega-artistic summer of 2017, a group of curators, artists and a lawyer set off for the Documenta in Athens. Overwhelmed by the diversity of the city and learned from Athens, we founded KVTV. A culture blog that determines what is talked about. We show what we find interesting from the big and small exhibitions, museums, vernissages and biennials. We’ll come to your vernissage and maybe you’ll be lucky and we’ll make a nice video about you! So be curious when it’s yo yo yo yo KVTV again....

Instagram kv_television

KRAUSE

Intimate with the needle

The queer/feminist tattoo artist and illustrator Krause has already put together an impressive tour plan for this year, with guest appearances from Budapest to Lyon.
In her dotwork style, simplicity meets black humour and the aesthetic cornerstones of Generation Giphy. Her tattoos are rather like you might imagine her customers: at once sharp-witted and playfully reticent. Krause’s motifs are inspired both by the simplicity of everyday objects and by the female* body. Her tattoos are all about female* intimacy – a naked body, a hug, a woman with her arms wound tightly around her knees. This is rarely how we show ourselves to strangers. Krause inks this permanently into others’ skin.

Krause will be at the launch of dgtl fmnsm on Sunday to study INTIMACY from her own individual perspective. As a tattoo artist, she regularly touches people on private parts of their body, causes them pain and happiness and is extremely intimate with them for short periods of time.

Starting to feel the urge? Krause has developed an exclusive flash for you and us that is already waiting to be won. Take part now and with a bit of luck you can have a genuine KRAUSE inked under your skin on Sunday at the festival.

Enter by emailing dgtlfmnsm@hellerau.org

An intimate moment and an intimate message that will really get under your skin – Krause and you.

www.instagram.com/krause_tattoo

Line Finderup Jensen

Line Finderup Jensen, a danish artist, shows in her interactive video simulation „Warn others of slippery conditions, so that everyone can walk with caution“ an experience she had herself once at the Oberlaa therme in Vienna. Visitors are invited to take part in the game and navigate around a memory while creating their own. Line Finderup Jensen’s work deals with hegemonic structures and how we experience them, whilst exploring how gaming can be used as a tool in narrating documentaries.

Melo Börner

Tabea Venrath & Miriam J. Carranza

The scenic reading by Tabea Venrath takes place within the installation Platonic Paradise created by Miriam J. Carranza (in collaboration with Lotte Meret Effinger). Platonic Paradise questions the dimensions of the digital self and the potentials of friendship, emotion and affection mediated through technology. The performance takes place in the GOLD+BETON (Cologne) and presented via live-stream as part of dgtl fmnsm in Dresden.

Ena Lind

Ena Lind has been pushing boundaries in the electronic music scene in Berlin for over a decade. She is a political minded DJ, producer and co-founder of the network MINT. Since many years she promots women in the electronic music scene and shares her knowledge in workshops. MINT has now grown from a party to a booking agency with feminist approach.

For dgtl fmnsm Ena Lind connects day and night: in the afternoon she teachs a DJ workshop a spart of the festivals’ #skillsharing programme and at night she will become part of the amazing aftershowparty line up at objekt klein a.

Workshop:

During the 3 hours workshop the participants learn about the technology of hanging up with vinyls, explained by first steps. You do not need previous knowledge! After an extra introduction into the equipment the participants can prove their awareness.

The membership is defined by 10, please apply per mail at dgtlfmnsm@hellerau.org. Fully booked.

www.enalind.com
www.facebook.com/EnaLind
soundcloud.com/enalind
www.mintberlinbooking

For you Katrina

„Do it
Told me voices in my mind
When I gone wild“


For you Katrina is an audiovisual music project by a Berlin-based artist and producer, performing under the name Meta. Their music is a combination of dark ambient and experimental electronic with bits of techno and electro-pop, and a emotional and strong vocal performance. The visual presentation of the project is as important as the music itself. The artist performs in selfmade costumes with extravagant post-gender styles. For you Katrina’s music and stage persona combines strong spiritual and emotional experiences with the invitation to dance and celebrate love and freedom.

The EP HIGH NOTES was published in 2017 as the third album of For you Katrina.


HIGH NOTES (2017)
Moon Allee (2016)
For you Katrina (2014)

Cuntroaches / Urin

cuntroaches.bandcamp.com

Stephanie Comilang & Simon Speiser

As artists in residence at dgtl fmnsm, Stephanie Comilang and Simon Speiser are working on a collaborative film/ installation involving Paradise, a fictional character played by a drone. In previous works by Comilang, Paradise surfaces as a disembodied voice who speaks of connectedness through adaptation, bodies as archives, and entangled narratives of possible futurities. In this new work, Speiser’s daughter Lotte, who was born in Ecuador, where Speiser’s family is from, lends her voice and knowledge to the fictional character of Paradise. For people like Lotte, born in one place and moved to another, home is an amorphous thing. The familiarity of two places creates a feeling of constant-déja-vu, similar to the card game of Memory, in which the player attempts to pair one card with another. What could this space of deja-vu look like?

Tabita Rezaire

Tabita Rezaire is an danish-guianese artist, intersectional working cultural activist, scientist for politics in technologie and a kemetic-yoga-teacher. Her artistically works are concentrated on the decolonization of knowledge and explores the politic asthetic of resistance through her screenings. Near by, her works shows the omnipresent matrix of colonization and those impact on technologie, sexuality, race, gender, media reports and spirituality, by focusing on the performativity of movements- online and offline. By confronting the western hegemony she shows alternative ways of narrating via digital activism, which questions our supremacy/patriarchal/heteronomy/ globalized philosophy of life. In the context of the warm up event Cry Baby at the 6th of march at the IfZ in Leipzig to the dgtl fmnsm festival she will introduce the artist shawné. Afterwards she’s part of an open talk with other artists of the evening.

Pussykrew

Ewelina Aleksandrowicz and Andrzej Wojtas are Polish digital media artists and video directors working under the moniker Pussykrew. They have lived and worked in numerous countries, developing their projects across multiple areas of art and technology.

Pussykrew creates multimedia installations, video clips, av experiences and sculptures, exploring spaces in between digital-physical realms, fluid identities, and futuristic landscapes, through artistic experimentation with 3D animation and 3D scanning.
Their fascination for virtually generated environments motivates them to play with the contrast between deconstructed digital images and sterile cinematic poetry, using the traditional language of painting. By dealing with the issues of materiality, they’re creating new synthetic-organic forms that are constantly in the process of mutation.

In the last ten years, they have been presenting their collaborative work at international film festivals, art galleries, tech fairs and activation events, including Saatchi Gallery London, Berlin Art Week, Postmasters Gallery - New York, Museum of Contemporary Art Shanghai, Carnegie Mellon University, Art Center Nabi - Seoul, European Media Art Festival, Transmediale and 3D Printshow - London, Paris and Berlin (Artist of the Year Award).

Pussykrew is currently a member of NEW INC - New Museum’s art and technology incubator in New York.



​http://hybrid-universe-emulation.net

Selected Press:
ArtSlant
FADER
NYLON
Creators
Beautiful Decay

Paula Kommoss

 

Tickets/Info

Box Office
Friday & Saturday: 6,00 € each; Sunday: free entry

Pre Sale
Friday, 16.3.2018: 6,60 € Get here
Saturday, 17.3.2018: 6,60 € Get here
Sunday, 18.3.2018 : free entry

Opening hours
Fri 7 pm – 2 am
Sat 3 pm – 1 am
Sun 2 pm – 9 pm

Accomodation
We provide a feminist homestay marketplace. Sign up at dgtlfmnsm@hellerau.org

Adresses
Institut für Zukunft
An den Tierkliniken 38, 04103 Leipzig
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Festspielhaus Hellerau
Karl-Liebknecht-Strasse 56, 01109 Dresden
OpenStreetMap | Google Maps
objekt klein a
Meschwitzstraße 9, 01099 Dresden
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#intimacy - Credits


Logoblock: KdFS, Dresden, [transcript], St. Leonhards Quellen, SHAPE, CYNETART, Musikfonds, prohelvetia, Hellerau, Creative Europe

funding:
HELLERAU – European Center for the Arts, City of Dresden, Office for Cultural and Heritage Conservation, Cultural Foundation of the Free State of Saxony, Creative Europe, Pro Helvetia, Canada Council of the Arts, transcript publishing, Student Council of the University of Leipzig – Equality and Lifestyle Policy Unit, CYNETART / SHAPE platform, Musikfonds e.V. with project funds from the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and Media

sponsoring
St. Leonhards Quellen, [transcript], b_books

collaborators
S T O R E, Institut für Zukunft with CRY BABY, böse & gemein Kollektiv, objekt klein a with XXY, Gold + Beton Köln, CYNETART / SHAPE platform

dgtl fmnsm team
production: ULLA HEINRICH I LEONA LENßEN I THERESA BÜRKLE I PAUL BARSCH I KONSTANZE SCHÜTZE I ANNA ERDMANN I FRANZISKA GORALSKI · Intermediation: JOSEFINE SOPPA I LAURA BLECK · Graphic: ANJA KAISER · Web: SVEN DÄMMIG · Special Thanks: VERA FIEDLER I MICHA LOTZ I DANA BONDARTSCHUK I TOBIAS BLASBERG I FALK DITTRICH · dgtl fmnsm is a concept by ULLA HEINRICH, KONSTANZE SCHÜTZE and THOMAS DUMKE and an event by HELLERAU – European Centre for the Arts Dresden

HELLERAU-Team
Intendant: DIETER JAENICKE · Künstlerische Mitarbeit der Intendanz: PAULINE HALM · Kauf­männische Direktorin: SABINE STENZEL · Assistenz der Kaufmännischen Direktorin: SIBYLLE ­KELLER · Programm­leitung Musik und Musiktheater: BARBARA DAMM · Programmleitung Performing Arts: ­CARMEN MEHNERT · Programmleitung Sonder­projekte: FRANK GEISSLER · Assistenz Programm­leitung Performing Arts, Koordination Residenzen: ANNE-KATRIN SCHMIDT · Audience Development: FRAUKE WETZEL · Leiterin Presse- und Öffentlichkeitsarbeit: KATJA SOLBRIG · Presse- und Öffentlichkeitsarbeit: ANTONIA GERSCH · Leitung Digitale Kommunikation / Sonder­projekte: ULLA ­HEINRICH · Künstlerische Administra­tion, Projektkoordination Refugee Art Center: JUDITH ­HELLMANN · Leiterin Künst­lerisches Betriebsbüro: SIMONE MICHEL · Künstlerisches Betriebsbüro: DANA BONDARTSCHUK · Finanz­management und Con­trolling: FRIEDEMANN ­HEINRICH & Katrin Meinig · Vertrags­management: SUSANNA RENTSCH · Personal, Verwaltung: SANDRA GRÜNER · Technischer Leiter: KAI KADEN · Assistenz der Technischen Leitung: HENRYK ­BASTIAN · Technische ­Produktionsleitung: ­ANDREAS LORENZ · Konstruktion: TOBIAS BLASBERG · Ton- und Medientechnik: HELGE PETZOLD · Beleuchtungs­technik: FALK DITTRICH · Bühnentechnik: PETER R. FIEBIG · Besucher­service, ­Führungen: CHRISTINE REICH & KATHARINA LENGERT · Freiwilliges soziales Jahr Kultur / Bereich Audience Development: ELLI KNEISEL · Deutsch-Französischer Freiwilligendienst Kultur / Bereich Audience Development & Deutscher Werkbund Sachsen e.V.: ADÈLE JAFFREDO

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*** DGTL FMNSM TO GO***

All interactions, links and references to the individual activities of the program will be published and monitored during the festival via facebook.com/dgtlfmnsm/ -become part of our interactive facebook-festival within the festival. The links to the durational activities will be activated here at the beginning of the festival. A device with Internet is required for participation. In the festival room laptops and tablets are provided.

TIMETABLE:

Friday-Sunday

Knowledge-Well - Infinite archive of feminist knowledge
Online-Walks - wwweb-Routes
#Hot Phones - Relaxation-Massage
EVALUATE - Shared document to clarify the question why we are here

Friday
16.3.18
23:00 ‐ 24:00

Karaoke Pool (added to Live-Stream)
Saturday
17.3.18
15:00 ‐ 17:00

intime inbetween time xoxo pep talk
16:00 ‐ 16:30

Sit With Tina @dgtl fmnsm - Live-Online-Meditation (added to Live-Stream)
18:30 ‐ 19:30

Tinder Tendencies - Live Chat & Talk
21:00 ‐ 22:00

:::sotrue - Truth-TV (added to Live-Stream)
22:00 ‐ 23:00

Karaoke Pool
Sunday
18.3.18
15:00 ‐ 15:30

Sit With Tina @dgtl fmnsm - Live-Online-Meditation
15:30 ‐ 17:30

Collective Intimacy
16:00 ‐ 17:00

:::sotrue - Truth-TV


Online-Context&Collaboration

The online-programm of the festival enables an own collaborative and experimental space - somewhere between the Festspielhaus, locked inspiration, three open tabs and an infinite feminist network. We move forward with our digital tentakles into a temporary community, accompanied by clicks and links, constantly transforming itself. In our shared spaces on facebook audience and members of the festival and all people interested in dgtl fmnsm can exchange thoughts and ideas about topics, discourses and art. And can make up connections and topics themself on this way. With simple tools we share our ideas and inspiration online, we dive, hide behind comments, swap, network and be bored.
Depending on the level of your mood and energy you can choose between various activities and non-activities.
You can participate from every place.
There are tablets provided for the festival audience in the Festspielhaus.
Further information you find in the TIMETABLE. The links to the formats are published during the festival-weekend at www.facebook.com/events/2035494640072143/.

Knowledge-Well
Infinite Archive of feminist Knowledge
You are searching for feminist sources and voices, but you don’t know where to start?
You are looking for some inspiration, quotations or comments? There is this one important website, you want everybody to know?
Anonymously and supportive you can work on expanding the Archive of feminist Knowledge.
You can set, rework, delete, expand and fill categories by your own. Together we support the common DIY-Tool with our heterogenous knowledge for and out of the network of dgtl fmnsm.
Drop a link or click through the Archive: http://meetingwords.com/nkXCXiP1iq

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Online-Walks
Go for a walk through the individual www of the members of dgtl fmnsm. Stroll around the digital paths of the artists and discover their Must-Sees, enchanting places and corners in the digital sphere. The network of dgtl fmnsm made up their routes by browsing their chronicles and bookmarks. Follow the links, hide in comments, loose yourself and recover with personal associations and records.
To take an Online-Walk, send an email to: playdgtlfmnsm@hellerau.org

DURATIONAL
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EVALUATE- Shared document to clarify the question why we are here
Leave a comment with your wishes, suggestions and critique about the festival. How did you come across dgtl fmnsm, what or who brought you here? What expectations did you come up with or did you join us? We appreciate your words and emojis.
Reflect on digital intimacy here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1JscLIo3bLuW6ZW89ps-u742FUhd4sZqSvOz4i46X1CM/edit

DURATIONAL
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#HotPhones
We scroll through our phones until they heat up to generate the right temperature for the HOT PHONE relaxation massage. Everyone is invited to participate and join the High-Tech Self-Care community actively. Total relaxation for the mind, body and soul! Light therapy included!
DURATIONAL
VIDEO @ YT
and @ facebook

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Karaoke-Pool
You are clicking through the web for hours and there's no source of recreation? Join the Karaoke-Pool and float through its familiar sounds, resist the urge of perfection and shine on the online-stage of home-based singstars. A warm voice will give you a hand, if the waves are too heavy for you. There's a place reserved for everyone who want to hang their feet in the water.
And then….all together!
FR 23-00.00
SAT 22-23.00
LINK @ www.facebook.com/events/2035494640072143/
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intime inbetween time xoxo - Pep-Talk
You feeling it? Not? Intimidated by such new intimacy? Call me. I am there to help you embrace your digital haptophobia and tell you what you need to hear right now to enter dgtl fmnsm.
SAT 15-17
LINK @ www.facebook.com/events/2035494640072143/
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Sit With Tina @dgtl fmnsm - Shared Live-Online-Meditation
How can I meditate with others when I am constantly moving? I start where I am and open the laptop: The network as a bridge to others, a live video as an anchor for the collective presence. The rest is enlightened practice or systematizes boredom: 25 minutes sit with what is.
SAT 16-16:30
SUN 15-15:30
LINK @ www.facebook.com/events/2035494640072143/
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:::sotrue Truth-TV
I am here for all your questions
You feel like you have lost touch with the floor? Your mailbox seems to be broken and you would like some cosmic support to fix the problem? Do you suffer from a slow internet connection and you only see the live stream in pixels? The entered page hasn't loaded since hours?
For information and questions about router, Life&Love you are in the right place at Pulsatilla Feigenbaum! ***I'm always available with my astral connections to the universe***
My services include traditional and new methods of divination.
SAT 21-22
SU 16-17
LINK @ www.facebook.com/events/2035494640072143/
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Follow up Tinder Tendencies - Live Chat
1 Dating App Pro, 1 Dating App Beginner and 1 Dating App 0 are following *Tinder Tendencies* with chill but chilled: They got 1 hour to respond. And you can follow up reading live. Chat with: Beth Lorette, Meet Grinder und Pea Not Butt
SAT 18.30-19.30
LINK @ www.facebook.com/events/2035494640072143/
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Collective Intimacy
Inspired by the slogan "the personal is political" and consciousness-raising groups of second wave feminism in this chatroom we will explore strategies of exchange, feminist organisation and talk about personal experiences.
SU 15.30-17.30
LINK @ www.facebook.com/events/2035494640072143/

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ARTISTS OF PLAYINBETWEEN:

Nadja Buttendorf (#HotPhones)
Nadja Buttendorf (1984) is a transdisciplinary visual artist based in Berlin. Buttendorf is specialized in questions of cybernetic enhancements of the human body, alien speculative scenarios and posthuman jewellery. She is a founding member of the Cyborgs e.V. Berlin and is known to have coined the term 'Explants'.
http://nadjabuttendorf.com/

Marten Flegel (Karaoke-Pool) sometimes accidentally sings in public. Every now and then he dreams of opening up a secret karaoke bar, where nobody needs to be alone. He is part of the theatre collective DIE SOZIALE FIKTION, whose latest work was dedicated to the economies and affects of care work.
www.sozialefiktion.org

lotti bfox (Live-Online-Chat Nachgespräch Tinder Tendencies / intime inbetween time xoxo - Pep-Talk) are all about poetic mindfulness, surfacing here and there to engage with the scenic arts and crafts with a strong believe in metamorphoses, gender revolution and nature as limitless paradigm for meaningful and responsible earthly celebration.
Martina Roell (Sit with Tina) has been wondering what life is since they were three years old. Somes she believes that meditation might bring her answers. "Sit with Tina" is a cultivation of her Zen-Buddhist practise that she began in 2006.
www.roell.net

Since 2017, Pulsatilla Feigenbaum (:::sotrue) has been offering its programme :::sotrue on some public radio stations and streams in this country. Her services include above all new-interpretations of classical divinatory methods. Besides, she is an artist-in-residence in the course of studies of Protestant theology at a famous university and researches into truthS.

Christina Harles (Collective Intimacy) is interested in experimental art and knowledge production at the interface of theory, artistic, activist and educational practice. As a researcher she has a special interest in intersectional encounters of feminist, queer and post-colonial theory and decolonial practices.





Live Stream


During the core festival at Festspielhaus Hellerau. Stay tuned.


Hellerau YT channel.



Lorna Mills

The young festival has managed to secure a luminary of digital art production, the Canadian artist Lorna Mills. To create her dizzying animations and GIFs, installations and videos, Mills builds a collage of images found online that are awkward, offensive and consistently absurd. Her works reflect our current digital culture, its look, speed and narratives in a cultural kaleidoscope of statements from the media ranging from 4chain to pornhub. Like few other female artists of her time, she has the ability to turn the intimacy of online visual worlds into an immersive situation in the physical world of the exhibition.


shawné michaelain holloway

In her works, the dgtl fmnsm curator-in-residence shawné michaelain holloway examines the correlation between identities and social networks. To achieve this, her interdisciplinary work with sounds, visual material and performances makes use of the freedom of the Internet from various perspectives, while at the same time subjecting it to critical examination. Through her pieces on the subjects of gender, control, identity and sexuality, she studies aspects of her own self-depiction and the way others perceive it. Attracted by all kinds of online scenes, she makes the most of the fact that she can digitally change personas and independently defines herself as who she wants to be, even in the face of her own moral conflicts – alternating between fiction, her real, socially shaped body and learned dogmas. Back at the first dgtl fmnsm festival, shawné michaelain holloway developed the concept for the live online show GLEAM, which will be on the programme again this year.

During a one-week residency, shawné michaelain holloway will be developing a presentation on “the evolution of live performances online” for the festival opening night.

In addition to her arrangement as artist-in-residence for the Center for Afrofuturist Studies in Iowa, she has also already presented her works in New York, Paris, Helsinki and London.

shawnemichaelainholloway.com


Nkisi

Die kongolesisch-belgische Produzentin und DJ Melika Ngombe Kolongo, alias Nkisi, ist Mitbegründerin von NON Worldwide, einem Kollektiv afrikanischer Künstler*innen, die sich als Netzwerk und Musiker*innen gegen sichtbare und unsichtbare Machtstrukturen sowie strukturelle Ungleichheiten in der elektronischen Musik engagiert. In ihren Sets verarbeitet die Künstlerin Einflüsse aus der zentral- und westafrikanischen Clubszene, mit einem Feingefühl für die richtige Mischung aus Punkattitüde und modernen Elektro- und Technoeinflüssen. Ihre unnachgiebigen Sounds verneinen jeden Systemzwang und bejaen gleichzeitig die tanzende Masse.

In einer einwöchigen Residenz wird Nkisi ein neues Live-Set erarbeiten, welches exklusiv im Rahmen der Festivaleröffnung präsentiert wird.

Festival warm-up at Institut für Zukunft, Leipzig: Cry Baby x dgtl fmnsm w/ Nkisi, Eterna (live), screening + talk

NKISI wird von der Plattform SHAPE 2018 unterstützt, die vom Programm Creative Europe der Europäischen Union kofinanziert wird.

soundcloud.com/nkisi/


BBB_

As BBB_, Alla Poppersoni and Alexander Sahm have been working since 2015 at point where music, performance, art, design and philosophy all come together. Fully Accessible Body is a new production especially for dgtl fmnsm, a large-format participative event during which intimate experiences are shared with the audience by means of technology. With the help of augmented reality, the interactive performance explores how control is taken of digital bodies in an interplay between real performers and interactive cyber-avatars. HoloLens smartglasses reveal bodies which are controlled by the audience’s bio-feedback.

CREDITS
By BBB_
Alla Poppersoni & Alexander Sahm

In collaboration with Janna Gaede und Fabian Schöfer

Performance:
Anja Arncken, Dominik Keggenhoff, Mar Rodriguez Valverde

Visuals & grafics:
Japparri, Obby1000, Pia Graf


FFK


Young Boy Dancing Group

Young Boy Dancing Group is a collective of contemporary dancers whose performances are a mixture of a queer show and techno-futurism. The YBDG use their performances to challenge normative notions of gender and sexuality. Their fragmentary choreographies are shown at art fairs, galleries and London nightclubs. By imitating movements from daily life, they create spaces for defamiliarisation, the aim being to create a new form of intimacy together – spaces for friendship, desire, queer alliances – and to constantly call institutionalised art settings into question.

With: Ivan Monteiro, Tarren Johnson, Maria Metsalu, Nicolas Roses, Manuel Scheiwiller, Vincent Riebeek, Nils Amadeus Lange

www.instagram.com/_ybdgofficial/
www.facebook.com/YBDGofficial/
contemporarycruising.com


GEORGES JACOTEY

GEORGES JACOTEY is a media and performance artist based in Athens. Their work examines notions of gender-queer representation and "ironic" misandry, and has been recently shown at Manifesta 11 (Zürich), CODE art fair (Copenhagen), Nu Performance Festival (Tallinn) and dgtlfmnsm (Dresden), among other places. They have attended the Film Studies department of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, from which they dropped out for reasons pertaining to the greek economic crisis of 2008. Since 2015, Jacotey and their partner, fashion designer Nikolaos Tsironis, co-run the femme clothing brand DAGLARA.

Georgiana and the Dragon

It was during the great persecution that Georgiana left her little village in pursuit of Greatness. God had placed the divine call within her heart but gave her no directions other than to travel as far from home as possible. She toured continental Europe for years, until the day she reached imperial Dresda, where it was meant to meet her destiny. As the popular legend goes, she slew the dragon who had been casting a shadow of death over the city. But sadly her convictions were unpopular to the people of Dresda who eventually decided to do away with her.

Georgiana and the Dragon is a pastiche of a performance that likens art careerism to competitive sainthood and identity politics to actual martyrdom. In this dramatic reenactment, Georges Jacotey parodies his own delusions of grandeur as an unrepresented contemporary artist.

http://georgesjacotey.com/


the blue distance

(Anna Erdmann & Franziska Goralski)


the blue distance
#enjoy – deserve

DGTL FMSNM space-design

concept, video, sound by die Blaue Distanz (Anna Erdmann & Franziska Goralski)

The central forum for the negotiation of digital forms of intimacy becomes physically tangible in this utopian feminist space designed by the Dresden artist duo the blue distance. The interior design provides the basic setting for a three-day-long session of transmitting and receiving information, with everyone involved being able to freely select where they stay and carry out activities.

Waterꕀ Source means refreshment, the first step in cleansing and improving your moisture balance all in one, free of charge. Join your local bottlegäng and get your deposit back. Deposits returned at entrance/exit!

Snack﹆ Source gives us coated mouthfuls. These tidbits ensheathed in flour – concentrated and sweet – contain a creamy centre of sesame, adzukis or peanuts. For between, before and after meals.

Massageꘐ Source means contact with yourself and others. There are two compartments: one that you can use on your own and another where A, J and T share their connection to touch with us. Will I or won’t I allow a stranger intimate contact with me? Do I see intimacy as connected to sexuality or not? Become aware of what is happening in your tissues, giving some thought to your feet, your stomach, the movement of your eyes. We discuss beforehand what the massage will include and what not. For the latest updates and time slots, see the profiles at Massage-Source itself. We look forward to seeing you!

The forecourts of the temples invite visitors to explore: to read manifestos on the flokati rug, to get closer to a whisper by means of a joystick or to come up with utopian ideas in the “cool-up area”. May your wells run deep༉.

www.lilacpop.de
www.annaerdmann.de
www.franziskagoralski.de


Shannon Soundquist

Antje Meichsner / Shannon Soundquist is a radio maker and sound artist, studied history of arts, psychology and communication science and engaged since years in feminist and antiracial structures in Dresden. She promotes as a part of the DJ collective ProZecco women*, that love to play out their interests in music and deejay. Her own sounds are based on the de- and reconstruction of electronical technoid sound material which Meichsner infers with linguistic admissions, which circle around the condition of the subject in the modern society.

Soundcloud
Facebook
Mixcloud


Magic Island

Magic Island is the digital version of the Canadian Emma Czerny. For some years now, she has been brewing hot stuff from Lo-Fi, RnB and Dream Pop. If these terms do not mean anything to you, rest assured, you will experience breathtaking sound like under water: bell-clear voices of enchanting meekness draw us into the suction of a new state of matter.

magicisland.bandcamp.com
YT Playlist


Monday
19.3.18
20:00 ‐ 22:00
Feature Ring
dgtl fmnsm special
Festspielhaus Hellerau
Dresden
w/ Magic Island


KULTUR VOTZEN TV


In the mega-artistic summer of 2017, a group of curators, artists and a lawyer set off for the Documenta in Athens. Overwhelmed by the diversity of the city and learned from Athens, we founded KVTV. A culture blog that determines what is talked about. We show what we find interesting from the big and small exhibitions, museums, vernissages and biennials. We’ll come to your vernissage and maybe you’ll be lucky and we’ll make a nice video about you! So be curious when it’s yo yo yo yo KVTV again....

Instagram kv_television


KRAUSE

Intimate with the needle

The queer/feminist tattoo artist and illustrator Krause has already put together an impressive tour plan for this year, with guest appearances from Budapest to Lyon.
In her dotwork style, simplicity meets black humour and the aesthetic cornerstones of Generation Giphy. Her tattoos are rather like you might imagine her customers: at once sharp-witted and playfully reticent. Krause’s motifs are inspired both by the simplicity of everyday objects and by the female* body. Her tattoos are all about female* intimacy – a naked body, a hug, a woman with her arms wound tightly around her knees. This is rarely how we show ourselves to strangers. Krause inks this permanently into others’ skin.

Krause will be at the launch of dgtl fmnsm on Sunday to study INTIMACY from her own individual perspective. As a tattoo artist, she regularly touches people on private parts of their body, causes them pain and happiness and is extremely intimate with them for short periods of time.

Starting to feel the urge? Krause has developed an exclusive flash for you and us that is already waiting to be won. Take part now and with a bit of luck you can have a genuine KRAUSE inked under your skin on Sunday at the festival.

Enter by emailing dgtlfmnsm@hellerau.org

An intimate moment and an intimate message that will really get under your skin – Krause and you.

www.instagram.com/krause_tattoo


Line Finderup Jensen

Line Finderup Jensen, a danish artist, shows in her interactive video simulation „Warn others of slippery conditions, so that everyone can walk with caution“ an experience she had herself once at the Oberlaa therme in Vienna. Visitors are invited to take part in the game and navigate around a memory while creating their own. Line Finderup Jensen’s work deals with hegemonic structures and how we experience them, whilst exploring how gaming can be used as a tool in narrating documentaries.


Melo Börner




Tabea Venrath & Miriam J. Carranza

The scenic reading by Tabea Venrath takes place within the installation Platonic Paradise created by Miriam J. Carranza (in collaboration with Lotte Meret Effinger). Platonic Paradise questions the dimensions of the digital self and the potentials of friendship, emotion and affection mediated through technology. The performance takes place in the GOLD+BETON (Cologne) and presented via live-stream as part of dgtl fmnsm in Dresden.


Ena Lind

Ena Lind has been pushing boundaries in the electronic music scene in Berlin for over a decade. She is a political minded DJ, producer and co-founder of the network MINT. Since many years she promots women in the electronic music scene and shares her knowledge in workshops. MINT has now grown from a party to a booking agency with feminist approach.

For dgtl fmnsm Ena Lind connects day and night: in the afternoon she teachs a DJ workshop a spart of the festivals’ #skillsharing programme and at night she will become part of the amazing aftershowparty line up at objekt klein a.

Workshop:

During the 3 hours workshop the participants learn about the technology of hanging up with vinyls, explained by first steps. You do not need previous knowledge! After an extra introduction into the equipment the participants can prove their awareness.

The membership is defined by 10, please apply per mail at dgtlfmnsm@hellerau.org. Fully booked.

www.enalind.com
www.facebook.com/EnaLind
soundcloud.com/enalind
www.mintberlinbooking


For you Katrina

„Do it
Told me voices in my mind
When I gone wild“


For you Katrina is an audiovisual music project by a Berlin-based artist and producer, performing under the name Meta. Their music is a combination of dark ambient and experimental electronic with bits of techno and electro-pop, and a emotional and strong vocal performance. The visual presentation of the project is as important as the music itself. The artist performs in selfmade costumes with extravagant post-gender styles. For you Katrina’s music and stage persona combines strong spiritual and emotional experiences with the invitation to dance and celebrate love and freedom.

The EP HIGH NOTES was published in 2017 as the third album of For you Katrina.


HIGH NOTES (2017)
Moon Allee (2016)
For you Katrina (2014)


Cuntroaches / Urin

cuntroaches.bandcamp.com


Stephanie Comilang & Simon Speiser

As artists in residence at dgtl fmnsm, Stephanie Comilang and Simon Speiser are working on a collaborative film/ installation involving Paradise, a fictional character played by a drone. In previous works by Comilang, Paradise surfaces as a disembodied voice who speaks of connectedness through adaptation, bodies as archives, and entangled narratives of possible futurities. In this new work, Speiser’s daughter Lotte, who was born in Ecuador, where Speiser’s family is from, lends her voice and knowledge to the fictional character of Paradise. For people like Lotte, born in one place and moved to another, home is an amorphous thing. The familiarity of two places creates a feeling of constant-déja-vu, similar to the card game of Memory, in which the player attempts to pair one card with another. What could this space of deja-vu look like?


Pussykrew

Ewelina Aleksandrowicz and Andrzej Wojtas are Polish digital media artists and video directors working under the moniker Pussykrew. They have lived and worked in numerous countries, developing their projects across multiple areas of art and technology.

Pussykrew creates multimedia installations, video clips, av experiences and sculptures, exploring spaces in between digital-physical realms, fluid identities, and futuristic landscapes, through artistic experimentation with 3D animation and 3D scanning.
Their fascination for virtually generated environments motivates them to play with the contrast between deconstructed digital images and sterile cinematic poetry, using the traditional language of painting. By dealing with the issues of materiality, they’re creating new synthetic-organic forms that are constantly in the process of mutation.

In the last ten years, they have been presenting their collaborative work at international film festivals, art galleries, tech fairs and activation events, including Saatchi Gallery London, Berlin Art Week, Postmasters Gallery - New York, Museum of Contemporary Art Shanghai, Carnegie Mellon University, Art Center Nabi - Seoul, European Media Art Festival, Transmediale and 3D Printshow - London, Paris and Berlin (Artist of the Year Award).

Pussykrew is currently a member of NEW INC - New Museum’s art and technology incubator in New York.


​http://hybrid-universe-emulation.net

Selected Press:
ArtSlant
FADER
NYLON
Creators
Beautiful Decay


GLEAM #3

Call, Connect
Live-Online-Performance-Show

GLEAM, in its third programme, presents CALL, CONNECT. Through a series of commissioned performances, we call Don Washington (Chicago, IL), Richard Kennedy (New York, NY), Ei Jane Janet Lin (Chicago, IL), Paula Nacif (London, UK), Daglara and Viscosity (Athens, GR) to join us #LIVE. From their own moments, from their own locations, they come to share with us what is available in the present : a song, a conversation, a point of view, and a word. The evening invites us all to inhabit a shared space through consenting to witness and to be witnessed in 4 consecutive, 10 minute blocks of time. While each performance is showing locally at the festival, the festival is streaming it back onto the net.

The uninterrupted content broadcast connects us all to the the world wide web and the emotions that get caught there in its constantly flowing stream of data. CALL, CONNECT is at once a document, a film, a play, a movie, a chat room, and an invitation. What it isn’t is static or definable. How do we connect with others who are far away? How do we feel their presence and intention through a space that always already distorts the transmission? Does a call evoke yearning? What about warmth?

GLEAM #03: CALL, CONNECT
Curators and moderation : shawné michaelain holloway and Georges Jacotey
In collaboration with Josefine Soppa

DAGLARA&VISCOSITY
Viscosity (aka Katerina Louloudi) is a drag artist and performer based in Athens, Greece. She is currently studying in the Fine Arts School of Athens. Daglara (aka Nikolaos Tsironis) is a fashion designer and drag artist based in Athens, Greece. He has studied fashion in the Royal Academy of Antwerp and he is running his own clothing label since 2015. Together, they are the House of Skorpina, collaborating on art projects, hosting and performing in queer parties in the underground athenian nightlife.
https://www.instagram.com/daglara_experience/
https://www.instagram.com/viscosity__/

RICHARD KENNEDY
Richard Kennedy is a composer, choreographer, and librettist living and working in Hudson , New York while attending Milton Avery Institute (Bard MFA). Richard has presented work recently at Moma Ps1, Artists Space, Danspace, Performa17, Moma, The Studio Museum and Segue Foundation.

DON WASHINGTON JR
Don Washington is an web based artist using video, photography, sound, and writing to navigate personal narratives based in public spaces aka da web. Currently finishing up their BFA at the School of the Art Institute of School. Their work is investigation into the onlines effect on the offline. They have exhibited at Dfbrl8r (Chicago), and Archer Beach House (Chicago). More of their work can be seen at https://vimeo.com/user44791294 and @raw_nda_ on Instagram

xXxtra.Princess
xXxtra.Princess are princesses.
xXxtra.Princess have extracted all knowledge from #WHYPpl and defeated the imperialist, capitalist, ablelist, cis-heteronormative, white supremacist patriarchy.
xXxtra.Princess are weapons/products against/for mass destruction.
xXxtra.Princess are princesses because everyone died.
You can be an xXxtra.Princess too. All you have to do is #Feel.
xXxtra.Princess is currently incorporated by Paula Pinho Martins Nacif and Ei Jane Janet Lin.
http://xxxtraprincess.world/