3hd 2020: “UNHUMANITY” festival announces two events from Berlin’s old water supply

The evening will be divided into two 90-minute acts, with a one-hour intermission to air the space and make it possible to come together in spite of pandemic. The health and safety regulation—implemented in response to the global COVID-19 health crisis—becomes its own actor in this multi-perspectival theater of crisis, rage, horror and struggle, with personal takes on this sociopolitical context by the likes of Florian TM Zeisig and GLOR1A on one end, and the “rough kuduro” of Nazar and Staycore producer and DJ Toxe.

The second event is a four-day exhibition called "Echo Chamber”, running at Großer Wasserspeicher from October 1 to 4. Bringing its title’s metaphorical term for confirmation bias and ideological bubbles perpetuated by the personal algorithms and closed networks of social media to its acoustic root, the show utilizes the sounds reverberating in the resonant enclosure of the now-defunct reservoir that was once Berlin’s lifeblood.

The event will feature multi-sensory and interdisciplinary works spanning the four different rings circling the Prenzlauer Berg water tower, where a limited number of audience members can walk through and experience this crossover of visual arts, storytelling, and post-club sounds. The cyclic structure of the space mirrors the cyclic nature of life, cultural movements and social progress.

The exhibition will feature new collaborations in AV installations by i.Ruuu and Petja Ivanova, Emilie Palmelund and Oli XL, as well as a video by Dorota Gawęda and Eglė Kulbokaitė of Young Girl Reading Group. There will be animations, paintings and sculptures by Tea Stražičić from the series “THE LONE LONG BOY”, a sculpture by Johanna Odersky and a series of activating sound interventions of unplugged instrumentals and electronics. Emphasizing the nature of the synthetic, while focusing on the materiality of globalized and networked society, "Echo Chamber'' oftentimes blends the virtual with the physical in an effort to highlight the heterogenous, distributed space of our mass-mediated ecology, while acknowledging that what starts on the internet, more often than not materializes in real space. It’s important to look outside of ourselves and resist the lure of selective hearing.

3hd’s "UNHUMANITY" program is a direct response to the state of emergency and solidarity caused by the economic and political fallout of the COVID-19 pandemic, which is currently affecting every aspect of life—not mentioning the festival planning process. It’s a situation that has led Creamcake to rethink its own infrastructure, goals and objectives, giving us the chance to rewire the way we work with the artists and collaborators, formats and institutions within our existing network. In connecting both remotely and physically in even more unique and innovative ways, this edition brings our global locus of queer ecofeminists together again, even if it can’t be in ‘person’.

Participants 3hd 2020: UNHUMANITY
インフラ INFRA, Annamaria Ajmone, AQNB, Mars Dietz, DJ Paypal, Claude Eigan, Jessica Ekomane, GLOR1A, Lars TCF Holdhus, Huntrezz, Juliana Huxtable, Alice Z Jones, Petja Ivanova & Cammack Lindsey, Isabel Lewis, Felicity Mangan, NAVEL, Nazar, Johanna Odersky, Emilie Palmelund & Oli XL, Eva Papamargariti, Rory Pilgrim, Joanna Pope & Steph Holl-Trieu, Tea Stražičić, Jenna Sutela, Terraforma, TOXE, Sissel Tolaas, Chelsea Turowsky, Marshall Vincent, Laura Welker, Young Girl Reading Group, Alice Yuan Zhang & Alexander Kaye, Florian T M Zeisig

About Creamcake / 3hd Festival
Creamcake is a Berlin-based, interdisciplinary platform negotiating the point of convergence in music, visual art, and performance, as well as digital culture and the contemporary discourse surrounding it. Founded by Daniela Seitz and Anja Weigl in 2011, together they initiate and organize concerts, performances, symposiums and digital projects; lectures, workshops, exhibitions and festivals, including 3hd, Paradise Found, インフラ INFRA, NextGen, Europool and "<Interrupted = “Cyfem and Queer>”.

Presenting artists whose work is characterized by intersectional, feminist, queer, and decolonial approaches, our aim is to produce and navigate experiences outside of normative social structures by providing a critical engagement with these perspectives. Creamcake cooperates with a number of community spaces and institutions such as Klosterruine, OHM, Südblock, Berghain, HAU Hebbel am Ufer, Bob’s Pogo Bar, Goethe in the Skyways. We provide a stage for the stories in which dominant power structures and their effects on technology, sexuality, identity and the creative arts are explored, while actively encouraging women and people of all genders to work together on an equal basis.

3hd Festival is curated and organized by Creamcake, and made possible with the support of the Senate Department for Culture and Europe.