From 22 May to 25 May 2023, Hebbel am Ufer at HAU 3 presents the artist collective Keiken with Morphogenic Angels, an installation with game screening and virtual reality about a future in which humans possess transhuman abilities.
Fig. above: Copy of Keiken Morphogenic Angels 2022-23 game still. Courtesy of the artist 5.
“Morphogenic Angels” explores a future in which humans gain transhuman abilities through organic modifications. These new beings are called angels. They can live for hundreds of years and possess the consciousness of all species: ancestral, natural, physical, extraterrestrial, animal, cellular and cosmic. In this first part of “Morphogenic Angels”, the artists’ collective takes the audience into this future post-capitalist world. In a controller game presented in an immersive installation at HAU3, the audience follows the characters Yaxu and Anamt’u’ul, who fall in love but are also confronted with the consequences of their joint development in a metaverse.
The installation includes a game screening and virtual reality and asks which values will be in the foreground in an AI-mediated world. The premiere will be accompanied by a playthrough as a preview of the game with the Berlin drag character Hungry aka Johannes J. Jaruraak on the Twitch channel “hungxiety”.
Credits: Production: Keiken / HAU Hebbel am Ufer. Funded within the framework of the Alliance of International Production Houses by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media. Supported by: C/O Berlin, Somerset House, VIVE.
WHERE?
HAU Hebbel am Ufer (HAU 3)
Tempelhofer Ufer 10
10963 Berlin-Kreuzberg
WHEN?
Monday, 22 May 2023, 6 pm
Monday, 22 May 2023, 8 pm
Tuesday, 23 May 2023, 6 pm
Tuesday, 23 May 2023, 8 pm
Wednesday, 24 May 2023, 6 pm
Wednesday, 24 May 2023, 8 pm
Thursday, 25 May 2023, 6 pm
Thursday, 25 May 2023, 8 pm
