We are happy to announce the participation of the first chapter of Industries of Denial @berlinale@berlinaleforum Expanded, opening on February 13, 2026 @silent.green betonhalle.
Industries of Denial is an ongoing audiovisual research on the historic infrastructure project “The Baghdad Railway” at the beginning of the 20th century. Financed and realized by the German Empire, it became a strategic instrument of imperial expansion, nascent
financial capitalism, and colonial debt policy, implicating Germany in the genocides in the Ottoman Empire and the deportation of minorities in Eastern Anatolia. The work addresses the 100-year long denial politics and the structural erasure of minority histories.
As a cartographic installation with archival photographs on 16mm film and essayistic travelogues along the railway line, this 10th chapter of the project re-frames Franz Werfel's novel The Forty Days of Musa Dagh, about the armed resistance of Armenian villagers and their rescue. The installation superimposes the history and the denialism of genocidal politics with the migration routes and museum
narratives by the people in this last remaining Armenian village in Turkey.
Industries of Denial
Stage 10: from Musa Dagh to Port Saïd
Multi-channel installation by Angela Melitopoulos and Kerstin Schroedinger
with the kind support of
@saastamoinenfoundation@uniartshelsinki@kulturakademietarabya
image credit:
(1)Petri Summanen
(2,3)Schroedinger/Melitopoulos
our dear ZONKEY is pre-releasing their first record Learning to Speak with Earth on the occasion of the opening of Angela’s exhibition @museoreinasofia on Tuesday June 13th. the exhibition will be on until september, 18th and will also - among all the wonderful rest of it - feature a room dedicated to listening to these very songs :) find this on band camp or link in bio 🧿🧩🫧
Aaaaaaaaaaarrrived today !!!
DNCB – A history of irritation by Oliver Husain @oliverhusain & Kerstin Schroedinger published by @archivebkj graphic design by #AioFrei 💖out now and coming soon to the bookshops of the world.
Universes of Images
Screening series and talks
With Kerstin Schroedinger and Angela Melitopoulos
Thursdays 5, 12 & 19 of March, 2026
17:00 - 20:00
In this series of three screenings we will seek to understand image practices that aim to rework archival and found footage that allow for a narration of ‘minor histories’. The ability of image practices to produce facts and the dissolve community have become operative and media agents in the current structures of biopolitical governance. We will watch works that are concerned with the interwoven processes of industrialisation, the formation of modern nationalism, and the violent ruptures modernity implied in the shaping of societies.
The series accompanies the Universes of Images thematic course at the Academy of Fine Arts, led by Mika Elo, Marjaana Keller, and Kerstin Schroedinger. The screening series is programmed and introduced by Kerstin Schroedinger and follows the visiting professorship of artist Angela Melitopoulos at the Academy of Fine Arts.
Schedule:
Thursday, 5 March, 17:00 - 20:00
Introduction by Kerstin Schroedinger
Kamal Aljafari, A Fidai Film, 2024, 76 min
Miranda Penell, Man No. 4, 9 min, UK 2024
Thursday, 12 March, 17:00 - 20:00
Mareike Bernien/Kerstin Schroedinger, Rainbow’s Gravity, Ger/UK 2014, 33 min
Angela Melitopoulos, The Language of Things, 2007, 37 min
Followed by a conversation with Angela Melitopoulos and Kerstin Schroedinger
Thursday, 19 March, 17:00 - 20:00
Angela Melitopoulos/Maurizio Lazzarato, Assemblages, 2010, 62 min
Followed by a conversation with Angela Melitopoulos
Warmly welcome!
today is the last day to see our installation Industries of Denial stage 10 at the @berlinaleforum Expanded Exhibition Unauthorized Versions.. open today 12-22 h! photo by @leo.hugendubel
many many thanks to everyone involved in one way or another: @work.of.image@cigdu@uli_ziemons@karina_griffith_ #shaiheredia #richardgersch @laborberlin and many others 🙏 part 9 and 8 coming soon 🔥
...en route to Vienna...
WHAT IS INFRASTRUCTURAL CRITIQUE?
Conference
29. Oktober 2025 - 31. Oktober 2025
Universität für angewandte Kunst Wien, Auditorium, VZA, Vordere Zollamtsstraße 7, 1030 Wien
A conference in celebration of the life and work of Marina Vishmidt
The conference What is Infrastructural Critique? will feature artists, critical theorists and collaborators with Marina, who will come together to think through Marina’s concept of infrastructural critique, a materialist approach to the infrastructures of contemporary art oriented towards aesthetics and political struggle in all of its interconnected modes and scales. Themes of discussion will include: infrastructural critique and ecology, infrastructural critique vs. institutional critique, art and political economy, art and logistics, the politics of abolition in contemporary art, infrastructural critique and music and the relationship of infrastructure to race.
With talks and presentations by
Marwa Arsanios, Hannah Black, Maria Bussmann, Helmut Draxler, Rose-Anne Gush, Danny Hayward, Angela Melitopoulos + Kerstin Schroedinger, Taylor Le Melle Mattin, Andreas Petrossiants, Natascha Sadr Haghighian, Robert Schlicht + Romana Schmalisch, Kerstin Stakemeier, Alberto Toscano
here our abstract for thursday afternoon:
Angela Melitopoulos und Kerstin Schroedinger
Being Moved: Infrastructures of Denial
We will speak about certain tracks in our film research ‘Industries of Denial’, which looks at the history of nation-building infrastructures during and after the decline of the Ottoman Empire. We meet Marina in narratives of kinetic trance movements that allow for stable temporalities or repetitions for a consistency of expression within a machine-based distribution. We capture some singular moments, an image or structures of inherent repetition that allow us to reflect on the imperialist, geographical speculation of the early 20th century, when progress was in fact a chimera that led to the First World War and the Asia Minor Catastrophe.
During the winter term 2024/25, Julia Wolf and I were invited to co-edit the 6th INSERT issue 𝚃𝚛𝚘𝚞𝚋𝚕𝚎𝚍 𝙼𝚊𝚝𝚝𝚎𝚛—𝚃𝚑𝚒𝚗𝚔𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚠𝚒𝚝𝚑 𝚂𝚎𝚍𝚒𝚖𝚎𝚗𝚝𝚎𝚍 𝙷𝚒𝚜𝚝𝚘𝚛𝚒𝚎𝚜, which examines the complex connections between materiality, crises and (artistic) historiographies by focussing on material traces as carriers of cultural, social and political meaning. With troubled matter, a concept is developed that makes it possible to think “with” the sedimented histories that characterise matter. The contributions shed light on how material agency can be made perceptible, artistically researched and conceptualised in cultural studies using specific techniques. The issue invites a new understanding of materiality in the field of tension between geological traumas and a “not-yet-named.” Link in bio. 🪨🩻
Edited by Julia Wolf and me. Contributors: Mareike Bernien/Alex Gerbaulet, Hera Büyüktaşcıyan, Sladja Blažan, Larisa Crunțeanu/Sonja Hornung, Kerstin Schroedinger, Heather Davis, Oxana Timofeeva and Ingrid Halland.
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