Content hub, info point and web artwork with a self destructive twist
The present in drag — “Welcome to the post-contemporary. The future feels like the past: familiar, predictable, immutable – leaving the present with the uncertainties of the future. Is Donald Trump going to be president? Is wheat poisonous? Is Iraq a country? Is France a democracy? Do I like Shakira? Am I suffering from depression? Are we at war? (…) The 9th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art materializes the paradoxes that make up the world in 2016: the virtual as the real, nations as brands, people as data, culture as capital, wellness as politics, happiness as GDP, and so on.” — Excerpt from the curatorial statement by DIS.
In collaboration with the NY based artist collective the website for the IX. Berlin Biennale not only became a website but an a ever evolving medium. To reflect the curatorial approach the most downloaded WordPress template (at that time) was used as a concept starting point, disrupting it with ongoing interventions like unexpected image/video inserts, css hacks, custom blog-posts, e.g.
web concept / creative & art direction / implementation