THE CURRENCY LAB – tɛknoʊmædʒɪkɛs 三 – Multichannel Video Installation – Opening 23. Jan 26 – 6 PM
Elom 20ce (Togo), Musquiqui Chihying (Taiwan) & Gregor Kasper (DE)
23.Jan 26 – 31.Jan 26
THE CURRENCY
As part of their transcontinental, multidisciplinary, collective practice, Elom 20ce (Togo),
Musquiqui Chihying (Taiwan), and Gregor Kasper (Germany) explore the possibilities of
questioning currencies, capitalist logics, exploitation, and power structures in order to re-examine
the relationships between humans and their interactions with the non-human world.
tɛknoʊmædʒɪkɛs
The presentation at Forplay Society focuses on tɛknoʊmædʒɪkɛs – a fictional term written in
phonetic transcription that combines the two fields of technology and magic in a multi-layered way.
It creates a framework, a working method, and an interdisciplinary space that explores connections
between technology and cosmology.
tɛknoʊmædʒɪkɛs sees itself as a polyphonic orchestra consisting of a sea of harmonies and
dissonances, absorbing different frequencies, vibrations, sounds, and rhythms to create a symphonic
assemblage.
At its center is the cinematic trilogy tɛknoʊmædʒɪkɛs from THE CURRENCY’s Sensing series. It is
a fluid, polyphonic journey of three stops on the Gulf of Guinea: Agbogbloshie—the rough, world’s
largest recycling site for electronic waste in Accra, Ghana; Ladipo – a dense market for used car
parts in Lagos, Nigeria; and Kailend – an idyllic ecological farm and alternative grassroots school at
the foot of Togo’s highest mountain, Agou.
In these special places, tɛknoʊmædʒɪkɛs explores the connections between different technological
and spiritual spheres and questions the values of life beyond the economic logic of global
capitalism. In doing so, it follows different cycles of life and death, permanent processes of
recycling and rebirth, and explores different frequencies, rhythms, and voices from the visible and
invisible worlds.
Supported by ifa – Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen e.V. (Institute for Foreign Cultural Relations)
