Marija Bozinovska Jones aka MBJ Wetware and producer J.G. Biberkopf are collaborating for a new performance, ‘GAD Technologies’ for the Zones I programme of CTM 2016 at Berlin’s Berghain on February 2.
“Gad” means to move around in a frivolous and random manner, as well as being an acronym for general anxiety disorder.
‘GAD Technologies’, meanwhile, performs feelings of liquidity, loss, immateriality, anxiety and floating “between two currents of freedom and control”. Among the two producers, both of whom adopt either a hybrid embodiment or avatar position in relation to their work, the performance will ask of the virtual realm what happens when gender, nationality and position become both at once symbolic and arbitrary.
MBJ Wetware and J.G. Biberkopf start off the evening’s performances at the Berghain site, and are followed by three other artists, including Visionist and Thug Entrancer who also consider technology’s expansive and anxious structure.
See the CTM website for details, as well as aqnb‘s list of recommendations. **
