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Transgressive Memory Festival
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What happens when memory refuses to be governed? When archives glitch, bodies remember differently, and history is no longer fixed—but addressed, re-opened, contested, and rewired? The eCommemoration Festival 2026: Transgressive Memory invites to step into a new terrain of remembrance, where media art, performance, and critical discourse collide to challenge how, why and by whom the past is told.
Our festival on 12 and 13 September 2026 at Silent Green, Berlin, proposes transgressive memory as both method and principle, as mode of remembrance that unsettles institutionalised rituals, dissolves the border between documentary and fiction, and acknowledges the complicity of technology in shaping collective consciousness.
Drawing on grammars of the digital, its glitches, loops, and new forms of archives and networks, artists and cultural practitioners are reconfiguring the aesthetics of remembrance. Their works mobilise image, code, and sound as insurgent languages that break open linear temporalities and establish spaces of multiplicity, contradiction, and ghostly return. Here, commemoration is no longer about the preservation of fact, but about the activation of relation between bodies and databases, absence and algorithm, personal encounter, and public witness.
With performances, discussions, and an exhibition we would like to invite you to explore history and memory with us!
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