KAMUNA 2016

Culture spans the globe, culture brings people together, culture is lively and colorful, cross borders and are borderless! »Culture without borders« – under this motto the Karlsruhe museums and cultural institutions will open for the 18^th Karlsruher Museumsnacht [Karlsruhe museum night] KAMUNA on August 6, 2016.

At the ZKM, in the exhibition »New Sensorium. Exiting from Failures of Modernization«, Yuko Hasegawa will show primarily works by Asian artists, that focus on new sensory fields of experience of a bodily and cognitive kind. The popular interactive computer game exhibition »ZKM_Gameplay« is not the only thing providing exciting entertainment for the younger guests, the museum rally »Minizine Museumstour« and the cartoon workshop »Grenzenlos, Trick los!« [Borderless, cartoon go!] also awake creativity and gaming impulse. In »Games Outside – Urbane Spiele ohne Grenzen« [Urban games without borders] classics of the gaming industry can be tried out in a true-to-scale obstacle course, and the »Babylonisches Sprachmemory« [Babylonian memory game] conquers final language barriers as per this year’s KAMUNA motto. Film screenings and audio and sound pieces on the topic of »Border crossing« round off the programme. As a highlight, the Sound Dome concert »De Natura Sonorum« by Bernard Parmegiani, directed by Götz Dipper, will be performed in three parts.

The exhibitions at atrium 8 and 9 deal with the modern global age from a European, Chinese, and Arabic perspective: in »The Modernization Process of Chinese Art« Pan Gongkai creates an illustrated history of China’s modern art, »Allah's Automata« exhibits fascinating artifacts of the Arabic-Islamic renaissance, and in the exhibition »Reset Modernity!« Bruno Latour encourages the visitors for an intellectual restart. The workshop »0 und 1 / AN und AUS – Coding aus der Dose« [0 and 1 / ON and OFF – Coding from the tin] playfully deals with the topic of coding, and Gabriela Lang with »Ver-Führungen – Kunst begreifen durch Bewegung und Tanz« [Temptations – understanding art through movement and dance] invites you to join in the action tours through the exhibitions. Apart from this, it’s all about the music at the ZKM: the walkable sound installation »Create your own Playlist« allows the visitors to become part of an impro-quartet, at the Morning Line the DJs 2xC, Roman Mühlschlegel and Gustl provide entertainment with »Musik + Draußen« [Music + Outside], and the Belgian-Italian duo Lumisokea, that works with influences from dub, musique concrète, percussion music, and Techno and Noise, will be performing live at the ZKM_Cube.

Program at the ZKM