This work is a production of Bertolt Brecht’s learning play “Die Maßnahme” within the video game Minecraft. Virtual settings were built to stage the performance, which also uses live-action elements. The piece follows a group of agitators trying to spark a communist revolution in China.
On several occasions, the clandestine operation is challenged by conflicting interests between fundamental and pragmatic modes of solidarity. Brecht’s learning plays were intended to be performed by non-professionals to provoke discussion. It shows how worlds are historically produced and how they could, and can, be different and better. It is less a reflection of, than a reflection on, social reality.
Biographies
Can Kurucu’s work has been shown at Museum für Fotografie Berlin, Festpielhaus-Hellerau Dresden, Babylon Kino Berlin, Kunsthall Baden-Baden, Station Urbaner Kulturen / nGbK Berlin, Bauhaus University in Weimar and Kunstlerhaus Dortmund, among others, as well as in Istanbul, Madrid, Ljubljana and Seoul.
Mariam Aslanishvili’s multidisciplinary work has been showcased internationally, including exhibitions at Festspielhaus Dresden, Ballhaus Ost Berlin, State Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, Event Hall Karvasla and Tbilisi Scientific Library. Additionally, her collaborative musical compositions have been featured on Radio Kunstraum and Cashmere Radio as part of the passage exhibition.
Jack Hogan was a 2021–22 & 2022–23 participant in the Independent Study Program of the Whitney Museum in New York. They recently presented work in the ICA London, Whitney Museum, Temple Bar Gallery Dublin, New York University, Athens Biennale, Starling Limerick, Bronx Museum, Hellerau Europäisches Zentrum der Künste, Artists Space New York, Documenta, Spectacle Theater Brooklyn, Ballhaus Ost Berlin, Conditions Croydon and Beta Biennial, Timișoara. They had a solo exhibition at P.E. Gallery in Taipei City last year.
Matthias Planitzer has recently exhibited at the Museum für Fotografie (Berlin), Festspielhaus Hellerau (Dresden), Silent Green (Berlin), Kino Babylon (Berlin) and Ballhaus Ost (Berlin). He is one of the editors of the book series “Uncanny Series”, whose current volumes “Uncanny Entrepreneurship” as well as “’Uncanny Interfaces” will be complemented by another edition entitled “Uncanny Environments” in 2024. He was previously part of the interdisciplinary research group “Image Guidance” of the Cluster of Excellence “Bild Wissen Gestaltung”, as well as co-initiator of the Einstein-Schering Circle “Life Imaging”. Matthias Planitzer studied human medicine at the Charite Universitatsmedizin Berlin and fine arts in the Lensbased Class at the Universitat der Kunste, Berlin.
