People were already creating images over 50,000 years ago. The cave paintings still puzzle us today. Why and who took so much time, since survival was a daily struggle? What began in the cave has today become an addiction to images, an unstoppable flood of images. Why actually? Who do images serve? Why is it such a tingly feeling to swipe your thumb around? A veritable excess of images: cat videos, war massacres, porn, everything flows into our heads as if through a hole. The selection and hierarchy of images remains a great mystery - shyly conjured up by users as an algorithm.
In server, the theater group maggots.gif sets out on the trail of this secret. Beginning with the Paleolithic dark chambers, in which high-end images from the spirit world were received through hidden shamanic processes, to modern neuronal networks, through which vast amounts of image data shoot and are knotted together in brute server halls, the evening penetrates further and further into the depths of a feverish social practice, a hallucinatory, shamanistic technology of consciousness, without which we seemingly cannot live: Images. Images. Pictures.
from 18:30 Art installations
19:30 server (UA)
followed by a discussion
Your theater ticket gives you access to the entire day's program!
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