ON WASTED GROUNDS

06–08 December 2024

Espace Diaphanes Berlin, Dresdener Strasse 118, 10999 Berlin

A project by DIAPHANES Berlin, futuretopics Zurich and spazifuturi Venezia

Artistic direction: Marie Glassl

»Deserts are we, wastelands. The desert, the experiment of ourselves, is our unique chance
for all the combinations deposited in us.«—Gilles Deleuze/Claire Parnet, Dialogues

ON WASTED GROUNDS is an ongoing transdisciplinary research and exhibition project at the intersection of literature, the arts, sciences and discourse.

Together with artists, writers, and thinkers ON WASTED GROUNDS wants to survey social, ecological, or aesthetic wastelands, trace areas ravaged by war and violence, explore the ruins of political and ideological world orders, revisit the trash heaps of capitalist consumption, material overproduction or mental overuse through performances, literary and critical interventions, discussions and talks–invent re-imaginings of an abandonment.

The three day long festival in December offers a first public presentation of the project and marks a starting point for further events and collaborations with international cultural practioniers and researchers.