Die Große Freiheit: From Ruins to Speculative Realities At Kraftwerk in Berlin, a 30-year trajectory of techno culture through the works by Anne de Vries, Arthur Jafa, Bahar Noorizadeh, Hito Steyerl, Jenn Nkiru, Joe Namy, John Akomfrah, Mark Prendergast, Otolith Group, Rebecca Salvadori et al. Curated by Adriano Rosselli and Sven von Thülen Text by Felice Moramarco Photos by Helge Mundt Link in bio 🔓 The title of the exhibition celebrating the 31th anniversary of the foundation of Tresor, Die Grosse Freiheit (The Great Freedom), seems to be a more adequate title for the celebration of a political event than of a techno club. Yet the foundation of Tresor can actually be seen as a political event; an event that connected two communities, which until then had almost nothing in common, and activated a politico-cultural project that in a few years spread throughout Europe and beyond. Initiated by members of the African-American working class community of Detroit, living in an environment devastated by the fordist car industry, the "techno project" was soon joined by a young generation of Berliners who witnessed the collapse of the world in which they were born and grew up, which followed the fall of the Berlin Wall. What these two diverse communities, that dealt with different (class) struggles, shared was indeed the intention of inhabiting the ruins they lived in, deploying them to build a new reality. Techno was the vector of this project. Far from being a form of escapism, the “techno project” is therefore grounded on the idea of reconfiguring a collapsing world with the aim of generating a space of freedom where to experiment with multiple forms of subjectivities. Combining films, sculptural work, and archival material, Die Grosse Freiheit traces a trajectory of this political project, the exhibition unfolds on the three levels of the post-industrial building of Kraftwerk, located inin the area of former East Berlin. 1. Anne de Vries 2. John Akomfrah 3. Otolith Group 4. Rebecca Salvadori 5. Arthur Jafa 6. Hito Steyerl 7. Joe Namy @felice_moramarco @studiomundt @outer_agency @kraftwerkberlinofficial @tresorberlin #pwmagazine #pwmag