CTM.12 - SPECTRAL

With an extensive program of concerts, discourses, and an exhibition space, CTM.12 ­ Festival for Adventurous Music and Related Arts is appropriating the festival theme SPECTRAL to explore the current reemergence of all things ghostly, mysterious and dark in experimental music, avant-pop, and art ­ and to speculate about its possible causes and inherent potentials. The thirteenth edition of the CTM Festival will be held from 30 January to 5 February 2012. As always, CTM runs parallel to and in cooperation with the transmediale. In addition to a comprehensive music program at HAU, Berghain, Passionskirche, Gretchen, Kater Holzig and Horst Krzbrg, a discourse series developed in collaboration with the philosopher, psycho-historian and author Andreas L. Hofbauer will address the festival¹s theme by pursuing questions concerning art, theory, and music. "Ghosts Off The Shelf" is an exhibit created by the curator, art critic, and architect Thibaut de Ruyter at the Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien, and explores the artistic use of the exponentially growing capacities of technical archives and their ³inherent ghosts². Also at the Kunstraum, "The Crystal World Open Laboratory" by Martin Howse, Jonathan Kemp and Ryan Jordan examines the material foundations of our digital world. This and further installations by Nik Nowak, Chris Salter and Anke Eckardt can be experienced from 27 January on, when the exhibition opens as part of the comprehensive transmediale/CTM partner program "Vorspiel", within which a number of independent Berlin art, music, and media spaces will present their activities.

Transmediale and CTM offer joint accreditation and passes, that grant access to the events of both festivals. ((Links anlegen zu tickets / akkreditierung)).

Detailed information: www.ctm-festival.de