transmediale Award exhibition 2009

transmediale.09's exhibition presents a spectrum of artistic positions, inquiries and responses to the multi-facetted, and often contradictory scenarios of climate change. Out of the exhibition's 27 works five are nominated for the transmediale Award 2009. The prize winners will be announced at the ceremony on January 31, 2009.

Alluding to the interconnectedness and global reach of actions triggered at the polar ice cap the exhibition seeks to uncover strategies that counter our mundane sense of powerlessness in the face of overwhelming change. 'Survival and Utopia: Visions of Balance in Transformation' explores visions and critique to aim at a new cultural rethink with a series of interdisciplinary art works that reflect on our digital culture and technological condition.

Within the specially-commissioned festival architecture by Berlin based art and architecture collective raumtaktik, the exhibition becomes part of DEEP NORTH's scenario of fleeting temporality, urgency and strategic sustainability.

Artists’ list (in alphabetical order):

Perry Bard, Federico Bonelli, Urs Dubacher, Marco Evaristti, Christian Gützer, Graham Harwood, Richard Wright, Matsuko Yokokoji, hehe.org, Nan Hoover, Sebastjan Leban, Jana Linke, Alice Miceli, Christian Niccoli, Charly Nijensohn, Michiko Nitta, Fernando José Pereira, Esther Polak, Andrea Polli, Reynold Reynolds, Axel Roch, Jan-Peter Sonntag, Antoine Schmitt, Emma Wieslander, Marina Zurkow.

More information: www.transmediale.de

A project of the Kulturprojekte Berlin GmbH in collaboration with the House of World Cultures, supported by the German Federal Cultural Foundation