V2_, Lab for the Unstable Media and Haperende Mens are proud to present ‘For Internet Use Only’, by artists Eva and Franco Mattes, in the context of Haperende Mens’ Spider, Spit and Broken Bells – Traces of the Sacred Festival 2017/18.

Exploring the theme of the Sacred from a multi-disciplinary perspective, HM Festival 2017/18 focuses on the potential of performativity and transgression as means to unsettle physical/virtual biases in the context of an ever-increasing technologically mediated culture.

‘For Internet Use Only’ is a performance where a live stream of the artists’ computer desktop is projected in the gallery for 48 minutes, turning the audience into voyeurs of the everyday. This ‘Digital Intimacy’ highlights the contradictory logic of this hypermediated space, where everything is both a private activity and public performance. While this engagement is playfully subversive, its implications are chillingly real against a backdrop where our data is increasingly mined, owned, sold and surveilled.

The special digital performance ‘For Internet Use Only’ will take place on Friday January 12th at V2_. And the exhibition as a whole will be from Friday 12 to Sunday 14 January also to be seen at V2_ during Spider, Spit and Broken Bells.

Born and raised in Roma, Italy and now living in Berlin, Alessandro Adriani is the brain behind Mannequin Records, an outlet that since 2008 has done arguably more than any other to unearth obscure synth wave and industrial music from all over the world.

Aside from his work in releasing forgotten gems and up to the minute synth incantations, Adriani has also been quietly issuing out his own music and remixes as well (check the killer Lata Ramasar’s “The Greatest Name That Lives”, the OG of which has long been lusted after by intrepid diggers the world over and the Nico Fidenco’s Zombi Holocaust legendary 1979 soundtrack reworks)

Mannequin Records has been pleasuring our ears with cherry picked wave, post punk, industrial, synth, psychedelic releases. It is definitely one of those labels, that have a strong sense of concept and style, yet manage to be diverse, innovative and unpredictable. Mannequin is truthful, sincere, genuine and not chasing the hype and presents a colorful, intriguing and adventurous soundworld.

Alessandro is the resident dj and organizer of the bimonthly Mannequin Records Night at OHM Berlin.

He will be closing the festival on Saturday the 13th with a special DJ-Set ‘til late!

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Veering between krautrock edginess and bittersweet pop melancholia, droning medicated tones and noise driven no wave fuzz, The Oscillation recalls the kosmische musik of Neu! and Tangerine Dream interpreted with an eye on Pil’s dubbed out punk funk, Miles Davis’ experimentalism and Spacemen 3’s strung out blues rock.

Beginning in 2008 as the solo project of Demian Castellanos, when DC Recordings released the debut “Out Of Phase”, The Oscillation quickly expanded into a formidable live force. The enlarged ensemble has featured numerous different musicians plus the live visual manipulations of film maker Julian Hand. Now, almost eight years and several hundred live shows later, the band return: at the beginning of 2016 The Oscillation released their 4th album, ‘Monographic; building on previous albums that have won them acclaim from all corners of the world.

https://theoscillation.bandcamp.com/