We are happy to collaborate with the
first-ever Bangalore edition of the
UnBox Festival, an interactive, multidisciplinary event that explores intersections across design, art, culture, and technology. The Festival aims to deconstruct the past, deliberate on the present and assemble ideal futures by bringing together technologies, activists, policymakers and the creative community.
The
German participation is fourfold:
NOW: A Kinetic Life
Performance/Screening
Bidisha Das X Thomas Heidtmann
Friday February 15, 2019, 6.00 p.m. Open House
© Thomas Heidtmann
NOW: A Kinetic Life is the outcome of the
bangaloREsidency-Expanded that saw
Bidisha Das working with
Thomas Heidtmann at
Lacuna Labs in Berlin in 2018. The project is an interactive installation that spans a visual and acoustic connection between outer space and physical spaces that surround us. It is an orchestra of movement using elements from outer space, nature and human bodies as instrumentations. It is an expression of the ever-changing moment we are living in now. The installation brings in sounds from all these spaces in real-time to a modular synthesizer, the heart of the installation, that Das has created exclusively for the project. The synthesizer is accompanied by CubeSat-like objects that are part of Heidtmann’s 'Place in Orbit' project, wearable gloves and plants with sensors.
Things I See
Looped installation
Michael Maurissens
February 15 to 17, 2019
A video installation that runs in a loop at the festival, will share a selection of shorts from Michael’s body of work. The moving images that form part of this installation will focus on his unique approach to exploring and seeing his subjects that imagine the human body as the site of an archive. The narratives he creates in film share a resonance with the stories of bodies that create, accumulate and carry knowledge within them.
© Michael Maurissens
Open Floor Session: thirdness
Workshop
Michael Maurissens
Sunday February 17, 2019, 4.00 p.m.
In a two-hour session,
German dancer, media artist and filmmaker
Michael Maurissens will introduce his work and practice, and present his current project thirdness (working title) - a film research on gender diversity in India focusing on the transgender Hijra community.
In this workshop session, he invites participants to actively engage in an exchange around the topics presented in the thirdness project. The aim is to share perspectives and feedback from local stakeholders, discuss challenges and issues that may emerge out of the responses to the project in the making.
Film Screenings
An official selection from the 2018 edition of the Science Film Festival, that promotes science literacy and facilitates awareness of contemporary scientific, technological and environmental issues, conceived and supported by the Goethe-Institut.
© Goethe-Institut Chennai
Friday February 15, 2019, 6.00 p.m. Open House
Food 3.0
Episode 1: Techno Food 43:00 Minutes / France / 2017
Episode 2: Organic Food 43:00 Minutes / France / 2017
Episode 3: Franken Food 43:00 Minutes / France / 2017
Given our current practices, the planet will soon be unable to satisfy the demand for food. This is already of vital concern, but it is set to become even more pressing. What kind of solutions could help us rise to this immense challenge? Food 3.0 provides a three-part answer to this question.
In episode one: The billionaires in Silicon Valley have set out to save the planet from malnutrition and abolish animal suffering in slaughterhouses. Mayonnaise without eggs, milk without cows and meat without beef. But what will become of our farmers, breeders and food culture then?
In episode two: Some advocate a return to true, local culture that respects the soil and nature. But is it enough to feed everyone? Some even recommend to substitute certain proteins through the consumption of algae and insects.
In the third episode: The increase in populations and living standards in some countries, such as India and especially China, increases the need for protein supply, especially from meat. Now, countries like China are exploring genetic manipulation and cloning. What are some of the potential consequences?
Friday February 15, 2019, 10.00 a.m.
Founders' Valley – Episode 8: Indonesia – Sacred Water – Scarce Water
26:00 Minutes / Indonesia / 2017 / Secondary School (12-16)
Bali has many (healing) springs, but clean drinking water is extremely scarce. Fridtjof
Detzner meets founders who help remote communities to re-use the precious resource. At the same time, they are pushing tourist facilities to save water. This film about ways to reduce water consumption is part of the ten-part series
Founders' Valley. It accompanies Fridtjof Detzner, winner of the German Founders Award in 2015.
Friday February 15, 2019, 2.30 p.m.
Founders' Valley – Episode 10: India – The Climate Challenge
26:00 Minutes / Indonesia / 2017 / Secondary School (12-16)
India is already suffering from climate change today. A growing number of entrepreneurs want to fight it before it's too late. This film about the fight against rapid climate change is part of a ten-part series called
Founders' Valley. It accompanies Fridtjof Detzner, awarded the German Founder Award in 2015, to eight Asian countries.
Founders' Valley shows what drives entrepreneurs in Asia and what obstacles they overcome to realise their dream of owning a business in a digitalised and globalised world.
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