Nadja Buttendorf: A Tech Opera | Nov 27 | SOPHIENSÆLE – Sophiensæle | Independent Theater in Berlin
Nadja Buttendorf:
Robotron
Robotron
Within the framework of Caroline Creutzburg + René Alejandro Huari Mateus's Die Vielhunderjährigen
It is compulsory to wear an FFP2 mask. Exceptions are made for visitors who are unable to wear an FFP2 mask for health/physical reasons and for visitors who communicate in sign language.
Robotron – A Tech Opera is the first soap opera set in the computer industry of the GDR and deals with computer development in a planned economy and everyday life in East Germany. VEB Kombinat Robotron was the largest computer manufacturer in the former GDR and one of the most important producers of information technology in socialist Eastern Europe. Inspired by her own family history, Buttendorf deals with the political, material and social conditions of working, living and loving together in the people-owned company Robotron. The artist assumes all roles and functions in the film: direction, camera, script, make-up, costume, sound design, lighting and all acting roles. Collective binge watching of all episodes of the web series, followed by an artist talk.
DEVELOPMENT, DIRECTOR Nadja Buttendorf ORGANISATION SCREENING, INTERVIEW Eva Königshofen PRODUCTION Carmen Salinas
The event is supported by Fonds Darstellende Künste with funds from the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media as part of NEUSTART KULTUR.
Nadja Buttendorf questions contemporary codes and norms of gender construction, as well as challenging the mechanisms of value creation that affect the human body in our digital society. Her work illustrates that even our understanding of technology is closely tied to systems of patriarchal power relations. Rejecting these notions, her interactive works and video projects are designed for interaction; constructing new and far more multilayered narratives in which women regain their visibility as an integral part of the history of technology. The works and workshops of Nadja Buttendorf were shown at the HKW Berlin, Hartware MedienKunstVerein Dortmund, Kunsthalle Bremen, La Gaîté Lyrique Paris, MU Eindhoven, NRW-Forum Düsseldorf, Halle 14 - Zentrum für zeitgenössische Kunst Leipzig, D21 Leipzig, Musem der bildenden Künste Leipzig, neue Gesellschaft für bildende Kunst Berlin and the panke.gallery Berlin.