In Dortmund we focus on electronic music as a paradigmatic interface at the transition to the posthuman age. The aim is to experience sound spaces as body worlds between digital and analog, to trust cyborgs and to allow an immediacy of sound, because: If we perceive sound, it previously spread out in a space and then met our ear, our skin or another membrane. These are boundaries that, like sound, are fluid, grasping, shaking and penetrating – as “sound spaces” and “body worlds“.

At Tresor.West, we begin with a film by Lynn Hershman Leeson presented at the 59th Venice Biennale 2022. The video Logic Paralyzes the Heart (2021), narrated by a 61-year-old cyborg, takes a stand on the integration of the body into digital and military control systems. In it, individuals are hauntingly transformed into their data – in an age of surveillance, little more than an analog for what they are.

Dancing – accompanied by Quim Girón – Catalan avantegarde artist Moon Ribas searches for earth movements with her implanted sensor. She is followed by Ji Youn Kang, who performs with self-developed instruments between analog and digital, before we are finally accompanied into the night with the mixes of Elena Colombi.