Rimini Protokoll

win > < win

“We are in this crazy, unforeseen and incomprehensible situation where we are competing against jellyfish. And they are winning,” says the Australian…

Uncanny Valley

We mostly think of robots as work machines, as efficient and precise executors of tasks. In German industry, they barely look like people, to avoid emotional…

Société en chantier / Society under Construction

The endless worksite at the Berlin airport, the interminable A3 motorway project in Italy, the squabbles around the future Lyon-Turin tunnel, the football…

Bubble Jam

Who is on the other end of the internet? How does an algorithm work? Who, or what, is giving us directions? And who, or what, is fake here? Bubble…

Chinchilla Arsehole, eyey

“No intension, it’s just Tourette”, is what Christian Hempel is quick to clarify from the onset, when he’s among people. He cannot control his…

Chinchilla Arschloch, waswas

When Phillis suggests to drive across Germany with their VW-Van, her father Christian is thrilled with the idea. Christian, who is suffering from…

Nachlass -Pièces sans personnes

What remains after we are dead? How can memories be staged? Over the past century, life expectancy in Switzerland has increased by almost 40 years.…

100% Brooklyn

For statistical purposes, people are regularly converted into pie wedges, bars and curves – which are then used to make political arguments or to create…

Utopolis Köln

500 years ago, by writing his book “Utopia”, Tomas Morus put forward his alternate draft to the world he was living in: a vision of an ideal society,…