Wear a mask and your face grows to fit it
Fearing ridicule, the soldier in George Orwell's “Shooting an Elephant” acts as his oversized mask—his role as an imperialist—dictates: he kills the peaceful grazing elephant for no reason. The inexorable sequence of events leading to this tragic end reveals his mask and the constraints it imposes on his actions.
With: Sebastián Dávila, Leon Höllhumer, Mati Jhurry, Jennifer Merlyn Scherler, SPORT, Melanie Jame Wolf
BREAK THE CHARME Eine Ausstellung über Berührung, Fürsorge und Transformation
In the participatory exhibition Break the Charme, the audience is expressly invited to interact with the works. Touching, changing, helping to shape—what is usually prohibited in traditional exhibitions becomes the norm here. Artists Selina Baumann and Anja Braun from Basel, together with the Berlin collective Diese Frau, have developed an installation space that is constantly changing. A wide variety of materials, performative elements, and sensitive objects create an environment in which art and everyday life intertwine. Break the Charme questions familiar roles, hierarchies, and boundaries—between work and audience, technology and emotion, care and exhaustion.
Sa 25.10.25 | 15 - 18 h Opening and participative interaction with Diese Frau
So, 26.10.25 | 13 - 17 h
Sa, 01.11.25 | 13 - 17 h
So, 02.01.25 | 13 - 17 h, 15 h Tanzperformance von Marie Jeger in Interaktion mit der Ausstellung
Sa, 08.11.25 | 13 - 17 h
So, 09.11.25 | 13 - 17 h, 15h participative interaction with Selina Baumann and Anja Braun
Contributors: Selina Baumann, Anja Braun, Diese Frau
Format: Interactive installation & performance
Marcus Maeder x Pflanzebroggi - Dias & Livemusic
Marcus Maeder is an artist, researcher and composer of electronic music. As an author, Maeder has written on a number of topics in the fields of sound art, acoustic ecology, artistic research and digital media. Maeder studied Fine Arts at the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences HSLU, Philosophy at the Fernuniversität in Hagen and completed his PhD in Environmental Systems Science at ETH Zürich. He has worked as an editor and producer for the Swiss radio station SRF and has been working as a curator, researcher and lecturer at the Institute for Computer Music and Sound Technology (ICST) of the Zurich University of the Arts ZHdK since 2005. Maeder is visiting scientist at the Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Landscape and Snow Research WSL and currently holds a position as Humboldt Research Fellow at Freie Universität Berlin.
Szenische Lesung
Four students from the Bachelor's program in Literary Writing in Biel present words in specific sequences that reveal different meanings. A reading with a language that is searching for itself.
KI und Krieg
Event by capulcu
Doors open at 6:30 p.m., start at 7:00 p.m.
The use of artificial intelligence in warfare is not a vision, but reality.
Artificially intelligent systems carry out military surveillance, reconnaissance, and target acquisition, and are used to prepare and execute military operations. The systematic expansion of this is a strategic goal.
Big tech monopolies play an essential role in this, shaping not only our everyday civilian lives, but also the crises and wars of our time.
The drone war in the War on Terror marks the starting point for a new wave of technologization of war and aggressive, disruptive social change. Since the beginnings of AI, some things have changed, while others have remained remarkably constant.
We must also consider the social conditions that enable the development of specific technologies in order to arrive at a complete picture of the technological attack.
What does such a critique of technology mean for our anti-militarist resistance on the one hand and our relationship to a (remilitarized) Big Tech industry that presents itself as politically extreme right-wing to fascist on the other? How can we resist?
