Now in its sixth edition, 3hd 2020 will act as a queer-feminist biotope created by Creamcake. "UNHUMANITY" deals with a system of human and non-human forces, built around an interconnected habitat of art, music, performance, digital culture, and its relationship to the more opaque idea of Nature Herself. The festival’s program is an expression of a transition between an untenable past and an uncertain future, while recognizing natural and technological actors as equal partners, and bringing its audience closer to a new model for an interspecies community.
In an era of climate change and pandemic, 3hd 2020 will implement a decentralized and dislocated festival structure across different locations around the globe. Los Angeles, Milan, and the woods of Norway, are just some of the nodes in the neural network of the extended ECO-centers organism, branching out from its usual base in Berlin. While there will still be events at HAU Hebbel am Ufer and Gallery at Körnerpark from November 3 to 7, Creamcake will commence their multidimensional program, online and IRL, starting on August 20 and running to January next year.
View our archive at http://3hd-festival.com/archive.
Team
Co-Founder & Artistic Director
Daniela Seitz
Co-Founder & Managing Director
Anja Weigl
Curation & Project Management
Tomke Braun
Editor and researcher
Steph Kretowicz
Press & Communication
Giselle Gordon
Communication Assistant
Atefa Omar
Production Assistant
Buyegi Kisalya
Design
Jon Lucas
Photography & Video
Ink Agop & Jannik Schneider
3hd 2020: “UNHUMANITY”
Visitor & Service Information
Due to the current COVID-19 situation, we have implemented adapted health and safety regulations with every venue for our audience.
Ticketing/ Entry
Hygiene regulations in the event area
Gastronomy/ Service/ Team
Accessibility information by venue
If you still have questions or need help, please contact our team at production@creamcake.de.
Venue: Kleiner Wasserspeicher
Address: Diedenhofer Str. 10405 Berlin
Website
Barrier-free entry/ Special:
A barrier-free entrance to the water reservoir is accessible via Kolmarer Straße, which is suitable for people with limited mobility, wheelchairs and prams. There are no restrooms at Großer Wasserspeicher. Parts of the paths are paved with cobblestone. Our team is happy to assist you.
Venue: Großer Wasserspeicher
Address: Belforter Str. 10405 Berlin
Website
Barrier-free entry/ Special:
A barrier-free entrance to the water reservoir is accessible via Kolmarer Straße, which is suitable for people with limited mobility, wheelchairs and prams. There are no restrooms at Großer Wasserspeicher. Parts of the paths are paved with cobblestone. Our team is happy to assist you.
Venue: HAU Hebbel am Ufer
Address: HAU2, Hallesches Ufer 32, 10963 Berlin
Website
Barrier-free entry/ Special:
HAU2 is barrier-free. There are two marked parking spots in front of the building (in Großbeerenstraße). A wheelchair ramp and lift, as well as barrier-free restroom facilities are available. Advance notification advised via service@hebbel-am-ufer.de or +49 (0) 30 259004-102.
Venue: Galerie im Körnerpark
Address: Schierker Str. 8, 12051 Berlin
Website
Barrier-free entry/ Special:
Visitors who require a barrier-free entrance or exit have the opportunity to use the ramp in the park. Barrier-free restroom facilities are available.
Venue: Schloss Biesdorf
Address: Alt-Biesdorf 55, 12683 Berlin
Website
Barrier-free entry/ Special:
Access to Schloss Biesdorf is barrier-free. Barrier-free restroom facilities are available.
III Blind Mice is the seventh iteration of State Proof, an ongoing audio-visual research project between Simnikiwe Buhlungu, Chad Cordeiro, and Nathaniel Sheppard III. As a contribution to 3hd 2020’s “UNHUMANITY” edition, this version takes the form of a 15-minute audio compilation accompanied by a collage, following the narrative of the English fable entitled Ye Three Blind Mice.
By placing bio/eco(logical) subjects at their centre, fables employ metaphorical narratives to teach social, political, inter-personal/inter-generational lessons about systems of value/exchange, ethics and community to the listener. They aim to instill a desired behaviour within a particular community, hence the term “the moral of the story”. It is important for State Proof to take into account that these narratives take on the ideology of the community in which the storyteller/teacher is positioned (the moral, ethical, ideological position of ‘right’ and ‘wrong’ is mediated by the community that seeks to teach the lesson).
Ye Three Blind Mice, in itself, gestures towards contemporary issues of economic and institutional power, migration, labour and collective practice. III Blind Mice will therefore function as a re-imagining of the original long-form European fable responding from, but not exclusive to, our context of Johannesburg.
Departing from State Proof VII, this compilation will be organized around the core principles of ECHO-LOGY and ECHO-LOCATION as a methodology for the exchange of sonic narratives through records, collections, archives and samples.
In thinking through “UNHUMANITY", in the presence of a health pandemic, and myriad global pandemia of mistrust and fear, this compilation converses with the historical mechanisms that allow for the human/ecological distinction to exist in the first place. These distinctions most often emanate from metropoles in the northern hemisphere, along an invisible line—not dissimilar to that of the equator—and sometimes negate the impacts that eco-historical, eco-colonial and echo-historical (history as [a] reverb[erations]), echo-colonial (Western epistemologies of the ‘natural’) have—and continue to have—on the Global South. The physical distance between the members of State Proof therefore changes the process and dynamic of how this particular project is developed, thereby adding another format to their practical methodology for sharing and building collective, narrative, sonic archives.