STRESSTEST
NEW SCENARIO


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Mar 21--:--:--

STRESSTEST
NEW SCENARIO

NEW SCENARIO puts real art to the test. 

After an open call 80+ works by international artists are mangled hard until nothing is left. STRESSTEST is a video-based online exhibition about the last moments in an artwork's life.

With
Gertie Adelaido, Nicholas Aloisio-Shearer, Esther Babulik, Dillon Beck, Lisa Maria Baier, Savannah Marie Bell, Johannes Bendzulla, Michael Biber, Bjornus Van Der Borght, Thomas Bremerstent, Ian Bruner, Radek Brousil, George Bularca, Sebastian Burger, Jean-Damien Charmoille, Arcangelo Costanzo, Billy Crosby, Adam Cruces, Petr Davydtchenko, Irma Name, Christian Drzz, Alexander Endrullat, Tom Esam, Simone Nicola Filippo, Paul Ferens, Max Fesl-TechnischerSupport24.de, Kåre Frang, Vera-Kamea Frommelt, Thomas Greig, Marc Hirt, Sun Ho Lee, Stephan Hörnig, Peiting Huang, Luca Ilic, Urte Janus, Perce Jerrom, Jakub Kanna, Tobi Keck, Yelim Ki, Maxim Klopfstein, André Löser & Ullrich Klose, K O T Z, Moritz Liebig, Sasha Lemish, Pinar Marul, Pedro Matos, Nicolas Müller, Ann-Marie Najderek, Jakup Nilsson, Katya Ohii, Juan Manuel Parra, perfettipietro, Plaque (Arthur Golyakov & Vanya Venmer), Merlin Reichart, Scott Rogers, Beatrice Roggero Fossati, Valentino Rosso, Xènia Róth, Andrew Rutherdale, Rymdgymnasiet, Jonathan Santoro, Karoline Schultz, Marten Schech, functional sculpture (Michael Cooper & Tom Mason), Ekaterina Serikova, Lennart Sidenstein, Nikolaos Simantirakis, Marilia Stagkouraki, Eefje Stenfert, Julia Toarie Strandman, Matti Sumari, Club Superette, Christian Silvester Seemann, Maral Taskirici, Javier Triviño Murillo, Hannes Uhlenhaut, Robert Vanis, Paul Waak, Finn Wagner, Orpheo Winter, W.U.D.S. (。ì í。) vs W.U.D.S. ( ಥಥ ), Janis Zeckai, Sebastian Zimmerhackl & Denis Olgac, Maria Chiara Ziosi

Concept 
Paul Barsch & Tilman Hornig

Video 
New Scenario

Additional video & audio recording
Moritz Liebig, Mia Heidler, Lucy Freynhagen, Christian Sylvester Seemann

Commissioned by Creamcake
In co-production with HAU Hebbel am Ufer
Funded by Hauptstadtkulturfonds
3hdTV & HAU4

© New Scenario, 2023 / all works © the artists

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HEAVEN’S BLADE
33


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Oct 26--:--:--

HEAVEN’S BLADE
33

While astrophysicist and mathematician Trillian Astra might feel cold and alone in the infinite void as she hurtles through the stars on a flagship of the blackest black in H2G2, it doesn’t have to be that way. Space is big, which means there’s plenty of room for revelry at the center of an intergalactic war, and Billy Bultheel and Alexander Iezzi are making the most of our own looming earthly calamities as 33. Their “Heaven’s Blade” track release—premiering as part of Creamcake’s 3hd 2022: “Life, the Universe, and Everything” via 3hdTV on October 24, 2022—is a hard techno dance anthem that is as combative as it is perversely cheerful. The track releases with a video work by the artists Margarita Maximova and Shade Theret, made in correspondence to the music by 33.


The video premiere is it’s own vanguard space vessel barrelling through an abyss of enormous adversity in global crisis, while building on Bultheel and Iezzi’s exploration of “queer weaponry” to announce their forthcoming “33 Unplugged” performance for 3hd’s “The Ultimate Question” event happening at Trauma Bar und Kino on Thursday, October 27. The “Heaven’s Blade” music video and the following event culminates in the drop of 33’s explosive 33-69 album debut via Berlin and Porto-based C.A.N.V.A.S. label. It’s a powerful noise, trance and gothic bootcamp that is as rowdy, violent, and mystical as its numerology-referencing, schoolboy humor-recalling title implies. 

Credits
A film by Margarita Maximova and Shade Theret
Music by 33 (Billy Bultheel & Alexander Iezzi)

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A BRAIN THE SIZE OF A PLANET
Nina Sarnelle


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Oct 20--:--:--

A BRAIN THE SIZE OF A PLANET
Nina Sarnelle

Marvin the Paranoid Android is a bored and clinically-depressed robot with a declared "brain the size of a planet," which he rarely gets to use. It’s never made clear whether said brain is actually the Earth—as some H2G2 fans have come to suspect, given that in the story, our world is actually a supercomputer of such complexity that organic life itself is part of its operating matrix. If the claim is true, then Marvin’s mind is surely an early conceptualization of modern AI technology—a product of heuristic programming and deep learning that can absorb the internet, and thus the history of information to think and create on its own. Nina Sarnelle takes the machine’s catch-phrase as its title and the overall theme of 3hd 2022: “Life, the Universe, and Everything” to visualize the all-encompassing nature of this year’s festival. 

Launching via 3hdTV and coinciding with today’s opening at Tempelhof’s soft power on October 20, the artist and musician’s “A Brain the Size of a Planet” video is a psychedelic journey into the multiverse. It’s made using the VQGAN + CLIP neural network to generate sequential images from text prompts emerging in an ever-morphing tableaux of image transitions that cycle through a galaxy of form and abstraction. Using S. A. Mayer’s main 3hd 2022 poster as a starting point, this piece was also used to generate stills and videos for web developer and designer Jon Lucas, which applied to the overall identity of this year’s festival. Much like the unknowable answer to the Ultimate Question, the representations of these pictures are never fully discernible.

The accompanying audio comes from a yet-to-be-released track, produced by Sarnelle as Mouth Noise and called “Move Fast Break Things.” An offbeat and outlandish song, it’s named after Facebook’s infamous slogan concerning startup culture’s impulse toward reckless innovation, and features sliced samples of Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg on trial before US Congress—perhaps one of the most unclear and evasive performances of all. 

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THE UNDERCURRENT
Rory Pilgrim


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Sep 22--:--:--

THE UNDERCURRENT
Rory Pilgrim

Rory Pilgrim’s The Undercurrent is the culmination of the film "The Undercurrent" (2020)—screening online for the duration of 3hd 2020’s “UNHUMANITY” festival week—and an online performance on November 7, 2020. Telling of urgent contemporary issues through music, the multidisciplinary artist’s film is a statement on the era of the climate crisis. It creates connections between art, activism and spirituality, while exploring community-building locally and globally, offline and online. Originally filmed in Boise, Idaho, with 10 young climate activists and the surrounding towns, Pilgrim builds on this project through a three-day “Undercurrent Laboratory” workshop in Berlin, exploring how to collectively respond to the problem of a rapidly warming planet. The closing event at HAU2 includes a live performance from these open-call participants, along with a string quartet and singer Ezra Hampikian. Idaho artist Declan Rowe John and other activists will take part online.

Singer
Ezra Hampikian
Declan Rowe John

String Quartet
Alice Colley
Esther López González
Eurico Ferreira Mathias
Fatmanur Sahin

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POSH
FlucT


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Oct 28--:--:--

POSH
FlucT

Sigrid Lauren and Monica Mirabile of FlucT go somewhere they don’t want to go. "Posh" (2021) is a psychological thriller inspired by the internalized micro aggressions forced by the commodified necessity present in late- capitalism. In this portrayal of two women going to the mall, somatic affects on the duet dramatize the subliminal surfacing. Their camera is the psyche and the ghost as the performance duo walk through the shopping mall of Park Center Treptow—a commercial complex, in which its disused toy store acts as the temporary headquarters for this year’s 3hd festival.


Concept by FlucT
Sigrid Lauren and Monica Mirabile
Camera by Lilith Schneider and Ink Agop
Lights by Lilith Schneider
Commissioned by Creamcake and HAU Hebbel am Ufer

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HEAVEN’S BLADE
33

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A BRAIN THE SIZE OF A PLANET
Nina Sarnelle

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THE UNDERCURRENT
Rory Pilgrim

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POSH
FlucT

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THE LYNCHING SONG
M. Lamar

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鏡中闇夜 MIRROR/ERROR
Yikii

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CAST-OFF
Alice Z Jones × Dis Fig

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BROOD X: A GUIDED MEDITATION
unseelie

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PLEXAURE'S TOUR DIARY
Fauness

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WE ARE HERE BECAUSE OF THOSE THAT ARE NOT
Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley

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GENERAL INTELLECT
Joanna Pope & Steph Holl Trieu

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REQUIEM FOR LOST PLANTS
Alice Yuan Zhang & Alexander Kaye

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BSAD (BUY SHIT AND DIE)
Steph Kretowicz & Ben Babbitt

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THE METAVERSE WOMB
Keiken

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AN INORGANIC NATURE
ℌ𝔘𝕹𝐓ℜ𝖊zZ

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