Technoshamanism
09. October 2021 - 06. March 2022 Dortmunder U, Level 3
– in the framework of "beuys 2021. 100 jahre joseph beuys“ of the State of NRW –
With the figure of the shaman that Joseph Beuys cultivated throughout his career as its starting point, this exhibition focuses on "techno-shamanistic" artistic positions today. The artists in question not only regard shamanism as a technology in its own right, they also use other (speculative) technologies to seek out shamanic energies. Many of the tropes that Beuys so iconically employed to heal and transform society, to cultivate a spiritual connection with the environment, to overcome the power and the logic of capital are now deployed by contemporary artists, who thus update his strategies and questions for the digital age.
In the right column you will find links to our three-part video series Deep Talk Technoshamanism – with curator Inke Arns, as well as with artists knowbotiq, Jana Kerima Stolzer and Lex Rütten.
Image: Key Visual of the exhibition "Technoshamanism", HMKV Hartware MedienKunstVerein at the Dortmunder U, 09 October 2021 – 06 March 2022. Design: Nathow & Geppert using works by Suzanne Treister, Transformella, Anja Dornieden & Juan David González Monroy
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Artists
Morehshin Allahyari
Joseph Beuys
Mariechen Danz
Anja Dornieden & Juan David González Monroy
Lucile Olympe Haute
knowbotiq
Sahej Rahal
Tabita Rezaire
Jana Kerima Stolzer & Lex Rütten
Transformella (aLifveForm fed and cared for by JP Raether)
Suzanne Treister
Anton Vidokle
Curator
Inke Arns
Events
08 October 2021, 17:00 - 22:00
19 November 2021, 19:00
09 December 2021, 18:00
08 February 2022, 19:00 - 21:00
19 Feburary 2022, 12:00 - 17:00 - CANCELED
Every first Sunday of the month, 12:00 - 17:00
Every second Sunday of the month, 16:00 - 16:45
Every second Sunday of the month, 16:00 - 16:30
Magazine
The exhibition magazine as a free download (PDF) can be found here – the printed version is available on site at the HMKV exhibition space and per order via Verlag Kettler. Further information here!
Photo Gallery – Soft Opening
Photo Gallery – Exhibition
Press Reviews
"promisingly, the title [of the exhibition] with trigger qualities attracts all those to the Hartware MedienKunstVerein who promise themselves impulses from the conflict between supposed opposites - rational technology versus speculative spirituality" - Springerin, issue 1 / 2022
"Technoshamanism shows art resulting from a deep disillusionment with the developments of the Western world. Similar to Beuys [...], contemporary artists put out their feelers, advertise for more sensibility." – gallerytalk.net, 19 January 2022
"Witches, hackers, djinn figures: The Hartware Medienkunstverein in Dortmund opens up the wide field of technoshamanism art." – FAZ, 04 January 2022
"This exhibition will make history." – KUNSTFORUM International Band 279 (PDF), Jan – Feb 2022
"In the Dortmund show, a sense of hope shines through in several works that imagine a future for humans beyond Earth." – The New York Times, 24 November 2021
"The HMKV uses the anniversary buzz around [ ] [Joseph Beuys], but does not directly connect to his work or concepts, but rather rubs up against them." - TAZ, 27 October 2021
"For Technoshamanism curator Inke Arns has compiled twelve artistic positions that do not deal with reality in a rational-analytical way, but rather resort to means of cult, ritual, ceremony." - Westfälischer Anzeiger, 27 October 2021
"The show Technoshamanism feels the pulse of our time, offers art lovers something really new." – Ruhr Nachrichten, 09 October 2021
"Collective feeling. We humans have this developed technology and all kinds of equipment. But what do we make of it? Too little in the interest of all. That is the core idea of technoshamanism." - Deutschlandfunk, 08 October 2021
"This is not a Beuys exhibition!" - WAZ, 08 October 2021
"Two things come together in the exhibition that normally have nothing to do with each other: Technology and Shamanism." – Deutschlandfunk Kultur, 08 October 2021
"We witness an "alchemical" forking, the forking of lifelines and the emergence of Transformella cinis." – Ars Tremonia, 08 October 2021
The return of mysticism: art's turn in times of crisis – The Art Newspaper China (PDF), October 2021
Interview with Inke Arns – trailer ruhr, October 2021
"A new technical Shamanism is conquering contemporary art. An attempt at an explanation" – Die Zeit, 09 September 2021
Video Series
Deep Talk Technoshamanism I with Inke Arns
Deep Talk Technoshamanism II with knowbotiq
Deep Talk Technoshamanism III with Jana Kerima Stolzer & Lex Rütten
Further information
All details on Technoshamanism can currently be found in the press release for the exhibition.