How do we shape who we are through what we play, whom we befriend, and how we remember? This exhibition brings together four interactive works that explore the ways we form identities, communities, and futures—through storytelling, friendship, communication, and protest. We invite you to: knock, archive, train, perform, and imagine.
From a speculative training studio for making friends to a reimagined toy world where gender roles and childhood anxieties are questioned, the installations create space for playful yet critical engagement. A participatory archive set in the year 2315 invites visitors to rewrite the past from a future of frozen progress. A sonic installation allows communication through walls, evoking rhythm as a language of memory and connection. In performative archival practice, sorting files becomes a reflection on invisible labor, social order, and institutional routines
Together, the works respond to cultural shifts, algorithmic intimacy, and shifting norms of care. What futures are we rehearsing? What roles do we assign ourselves and others? And how might we reclaim imagination as a form of resistance?
This exhibition shows four works from the fourth cohort of the Spiel und Objekt [Play and Object] program—two interactive installations from their first semester and three participatory performances from their second semester that premiered mid-June in Berlin and have been adapted as interactive exhibits for the Campus Exhibition.
