Schrein
2024
Installation
Schrein is an artifact from an imagined future that is cooler than the present.
It is the near future and civilisation is crumbling. Consensus reality has collapsed because of the recursively-improving generative technologies, and everyone feels constantly disoriented. All the tourists and the tiktok people have left Berlin and it is back to being a real shit hole.
An atmosphere of nihilism and hedonism pervades. Techno has become incredibly sinister and minimalistic.
The foremost avant-garde artists of the era, lured to Berlin by its post-apocalyptic aesthetics, are all competing to produce the weirdest, most fucked-up novel variants of drugs of a new class whose method of action is stimulation of the central nervous system via the visual cortex.
Aficionados of the new art can tune into hidden messages and other telltale signs of the proximity of one of the illicit „Schreinen“ at which insiders gather in secret to see these artworks, sharing meaningful experiences with other people in an otherwise isolating reality.