Hauntings – Ghost Box Media Secret and uncanny presence in media, art and pop

82% visual arts 11% discourse 7% ghosts

Since media have existed, they have been said to have a hotline to the hereafter. The open, electronic archives of our time radicalise this suspicion even further, as there is hardly a media artefact left that isn’t haunted by a ghost of the past. What are the characteristics of this secret presence or uncanny absence in contemporary art? How is the facticity of the simulacrum, the “presence of a ghost” (Jacques Derrida) manifested? What undead beings haunt an art whose main characteristic is its claim to contemporaneity? What “sinister resonances” (David Toop) are currently at work here?
Based on a small cross-section of a wide range of media, visitors can experience all the things that continue to pursue and haunt us in today’s art forms.

Besides the exhibition at Kunstverein Medienturm "Hauntings" explores more secret and uncanny presences in media, art and pop in the frame of a series of concerts in musikprotokoll and an evening of film:

Hauntings – Sonic Spectres

Cinema: Hölle Hamburg