Finally, yes, ladies and gentlemen:
DEEP is the New Dark.
After Deep Politics, Deep Economy, Deep Industry or Deep Science, the new appropriation of depth continues. Art and research are moving into the deep, and we are mining and fracking our minds. In DEEP we find not only Deep Learning, Mind or Data, but also Deep Fake, Deep Exploitation, a lot of contradictions and an archaic mixture of mud, Gaia, Meta, Weltgeist, pre-modernity, of wild thinking, dark mirrors and speculation.
In the irrational and insightful states of the DEEP, human and non-human actors, systems and dynamics from the past, present and future connect. And they often connect in different ways than our rational world would like to regulate. The globe is visibly disconnected: nature broken, warlike conflicts, democracy in limbo, globalization crashing, consumption precarious, science drowned out, tech one-way-total, human maelstrom, autistic rage.
But still we want to be connected: With our devices, our data, nature, the world, others, every fucking thing in the universe, and in the end, ourselves.
STWST shows at Deep Open Mess between Disconnected and Connecting: analog machines, phosphorescent worlds, VR data journeys, NFP money, text destruction, discourse transformation, it spreads deep sound opera feeling, a nonbinary techno fantasia and more. Plus, texts about techno-communism and shamanism, all-around totalitarianism, goldrush politics, self-fracking, and mind-mining in STWST's newspaper Versorgerin.
The bodies think. The spirits feel. We are digging for a new humanism with the familiar announcement: pessimism of the intellect, optimism of the will.
With DEEP, the Stadtwerkstatt is hosting its 8th edition of the annual 48-hour non-stop showcase extravaganza in September 2022: 48 hours of genre-free art and critical production in the house's anti-white cube.
