Welcome to the world as we don’t know it.
Welcome to Hypertopia.
STATE STUDIO • HYPERTOPIA
As part of STATE Studio Berlin‘s exhibition HYPERTOPIA, I was asked to create a spoken word piece. Inspired by the video work we are opposite like that by writer, poet and internationally exhibited artist Himali Singh Soin, I voiced questions of self- & humanhood, roots, borders, binaries, deep time and the power of storytelling.
Absolutes Gänsehautfeeling.
– Christina Hooge, Curator of HYPERTOPIA
My work was presented in video format as part of the exhibition’s Field Explorations program. The video can be accessed here. An art publication including the full piece in print is forthcoming.
HYPERTOPIA EXHIBITION
23 October – 6 December 2020 I 52° 29′ 24.482″ N 13° 21′ 34.603″ E
Now that we’re here, where are we? Still on the same planet, for sure. But forces are shifting. How did we get here? What stance should we take? What actions? And where are we heading?
“Hypertopia bridges between today and tomorrow. Powered by the vision of a collective change in consciousness, the interdisciplinary program and exhibition anticipates a post-crisis future to explore approaches for a meaningful present. With a selection of artistic positions, propositions and exploratory projects that incorporate scientific methods as well as speculative modes of thought, Hypertopia challenges hierarchies, probes ideas, and imagines scenarios for a new planetary optimism.”
“Hypertopia is neither an island nor a cloud-based never-never land. It is right where we are, in a state of suspense: a transit zone, a time-warp, a thinking space, a borderless territory of transdisciplinary inquiry into planetary futures, new forms of interspecies coexistence, and conscious collectiveness.”
FIELD EXPLORATIONS
When was the last time you saw the city as a playground to be be explored?
Hypertopia is a borderless territory. Hence, the exhibition was accompanied by a decentralized framework program. Self-guided Field Explorations took the exhibition from the gallery space into open terrain. Starting from the exhibited artworks, visitors were given basic instructions and sent out onto Berlin’s streets to gather clues for fresh momentum.
STATE Studio’s Hypertopia has closed, but the strings of narrative curated within and beyond the exhibition continue to unfurl. The exhibition as well as the accompanying Field Explorations are still accessible online: HYPERTOPIA online exhibition.
Hypertopia was supported by Hauptstadtkulturfonds Berlin.
“Wir haben uns das Video mit dem gesamten STATE Team angeschaut und waren begeistert. Es ist wunder, wunderschön! Ganz toller text, schöne Stimme und absolutes Gänsehautfeeling. DANKE, DANKE, DANKE.”
– Christina Hooge, Curator and Cultural Producer at STATE Studio Berlin
Top image credit: Himali Singh Soin / Mirthe van Popering
Mirthe van Popering 