‘NIE WIEDER EIGENTUM: Horses and Artificial Intelligence’ with works by Fadi Aljabour, Mario Bergmann, Hannah Borghese, Callaz, Valentina Primavera, Annett Hardegen, Luce deLire and Ulaş

Exhibition opening on Thursday, 19 June in the chapel in Eichenpark (Stadtparkallee 33, 30853 Langenhagen.

A horse's body hangs lengthwise down from the ceiling of the chapel. Behind it, there is a music video in which horses sing about the technological development of artificial intelligence. It neighs in five octaves. Poems are read in an adjoining room above which hangs a ghostly family portrait. It is dark. The poems tell of migration and resistance. In the next room, butterflies are illuminated behind plexiglass, and white fabric hangs like skin to dry. The corridors are full of surreal horse portraits. It's summer in Langenhagen.

There is tension in the air, and this project, Situated Dissonance, aims to experience it through specific means in a specific place: Langenhagen.

Social dissonance refers to the discrepancies between liberal conceptions of freedom, our self-understanding, and a reality that is disintegrating those values.

This long-term project involves translating a book with the help of AI while conducting a reading group that comments on how the issues we discuss relate to what is happening in Langenhagen. This will be complemented by performative interpretations of an instruction score and interventions in the public sphere. The project will conclude with a Festival of Social Noise later on this year. The material generated during the project will later be used to create a publication.

You are invited to take part in this ambitious experimental project.

Dates:
We will meet on site in Langenhage 15 March, 3 May and 28 June 2025 from 3pm to 7pm.

Additionally we'll meet online once every month (25.3., 29.4., 27.5., 24.6., 29.7. and 26.8., each time from 6pm to 8pm)

Please register for texts, information on meeting places and more at mail@kunstverein-langenhagen.de

At the end of Situated Dissonance, we are organising the Festival of Social Noise from 19 to 21 September 2025.

This project is inspired by a work of the artist Karolin Meunier, an experimental translation of a book by the Italian feminist and author Carla Lonzi.

Social Dissonance was originally published in English by Urbanomic/MIT Press.

On the meadow in the garden, between crooked trees, small hills and weird sculptures, we play, build, sew, paint, experiment and make music together with homemade instruments during the first three weeks of the summer vacations. Everyone aged 6 and over is welcome to come along and join in.

This summer, the Freiraum für Gedanken und Bauwerke will take place for the eighth time in the garden of the Kunstverein Langenhagen. This year's Freiraum will be accompanied by art students from Braunschweig and the Kunstverein team.

Participation in the Freiraum is free of charge. Materials are available on site, but you can also bring them from your own cellars, garages, closets, pantries or elsewhere. Just come along or register in advance. We look forward to seeing you!

As a grand finale, the Kunstverein summer party will be celebrated on July 26, 2025 with food and drink, noisy music and some performances as well as objects made during the three weeks!

This year, for the first time, the Freiraum für Gedanken und Bauwerke and the summer party will be conceived and organized in cooperation with students of the Zusatzqualifikation Kunstvermittlung of the HBK Braunschweig, under Prof. Martin Krenn.

Your building, noise and painting assistants: Selin Aksu, Anika Ammermann, Dana Crasser, Kira Domscheit, Medea Feidieker, Jannis Godisch, Lucian Loebner und Merve Gisou Rosenthal

The Freiraum is kindly supported by the VGH Stiftung and the Lower Saxony Ministry of Science and Culture.