Award ceremony of the Fördergesellschaft ZKM / HfG

JJxH54D – Spring Collection

Performative intervention with rap concert and fashion show, which was carried out at the opening of the Brecht Festival 2024 in Brecht's Kraftklub Augsburg with the young residents of a stigmatized district. Questions of identity, belonging and empowerment were brought home to the young people involved through activities such as rap, workshops and the creation of young fashion such as overalls and jackets. Contacts were made via social workers. The clothing was given to the young people as a gift. 

Bookboi*

The Bookboi group is a collective and sees itself as a student initiative of the HfG that has been in existence for over 10 years. It visits book fairs and similar events in and around Germany and promotes student publications there, organizes talks, workshops and performances and successfully addresses an audience outside the university.

Path Tiles – Knitting – Coordinates into Patterns

Andrulyte created five attractive objects in the product design category, on which personalized coordinates tracked by GPS are knitted. They are intended to make the journeys of individual people more memorable through corresponding patterns on textiles such as scarves, bags as pillows and capes. The result is a conceptual work that creates a close link between people and objects as well as travel and memory. 

A man in the shape of…

Kudufia combines a poetic practice of collecting in order to condense time and memory with the aim of searching for identity. He collects fantasy coffins, the form of which in Ghana and other African countries can provide clues to the life lived by the deceased, for example a boat for the fisherman, a car for the businessman, etc. The work between fiction and reality is accompanied by a seven-part video installation with music and images, which condenses his own story as a transmedia collage.

Spellbound – computer game

The computer game „Spellbound“ is a game that utilizes the author's personal experience with „depression, post-traumatic stress and suicidal thoughts“. She created a character named Vera, who suffers from the same symptoms and is led through a kind of therapeutic session. 

ZWISCHENRÄUME_N

The work deals with the investigation and atmospheric representation of a quasi nameless place as an „in-between“, which is without recognizable functions and boundaries. This space was found in an area between Gartenstrasse and Kriegsstrasse. It must appear dysfunctional to the viewer. Research and analysis resulted in an exhibition in the pavilion with various installations that aim to make the nameless place visible to the viewer.

Who cares? Digital sociality, infrastructures of care and conciliatory technologies

Hacker culture combines theory and practice as well as a new approach to cultural materials. The text first contextualizes the emergence of digital property concepts historically, then analyses political, social and economic aspects of hacker culture and discusses maintenance and infrastructural care.