fromBattlefields toRoborders

Maithu Bùi

1 Aug–13 Oct 24

Opening: Jul 31, 24

with Ahmad Katlesh, Khoi Nguyen, Petra Molnar, Sinthujan Varatharajah, Vanessa Vu

My voice’s name is Reveal and on behalf of Storyline, it is my pleasure to welcome you aboard with service from Battlefields to Roborders. We are in line for take-off and are expected to be in the air in approximately ten minutes time. Thank-you for choosing this Storyline. Enjoy your journey.*

Matihu Bùi’s new video work reveals a storyline providing access to the world’s “smart” borders, giving insight into fully autonomous systems tested there – from biometric data collection and algorithmic “risk” assessment to automated voice recognition. fromBattlefields toRoborders takes off from the violent origins of border technologies in war zones and lands at a critique of a lack of transparency, law regulations and control mechanisms regarding their usage today. At the center of the journey are stories of the lived realities at these borders; the destination is a different world through resistance and solidarity.

fromBattlefields toRoborders is the fifth part of the exhibition series
– conceptions of (extra)terrestrial worlds between reality and fiction.

* Maithu Bùi, fromBattlefields toRoborders, 2024, video-text excerpt

Accompanying programme

About the artist

Maithu Bùi is an artist. Born in 1991 in Plauen to Vietnamese parents, their research examines networks of violence at the intersection of collective history, science and technology. They studied Philosophy of Language and Logic at LMU Munich, Fine Arts at UdK Berlin and are currently studying science and technology at the Technical University of Berlin. Their work has been shown at the 12th Berlin Biennale, Bundeskunsthalle Bonn and Kunsthalle Bratislava. They are co-founder of the research collective “Curating through Conflict with Care (CCC)” and the working group “art+computation” at the Gesellschaft für Informatik. Maithu Bùi is a Human Machine fellow at Akademie der Künste.

Team

Curator: Johanna Janßen

Head of Production: Carolina Redondo
Assistant: Marlene Risse und Viktoria Weber
Production team: Carlos Busquets, Danilo Cozzi, Filipe Monroy
Gallery invigilators: Daniela Schoepe & Josef Stöhr

The curator would like to thank the team of Galerie im Turm and Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien for their support, namely: Dani Hasrouni, Melina Gentner, Viktoria Weber, Sofía Pfister, Stéphane Bauer and the team of supervisors.

fromBattlefields toRoborders is funded by the Senate Department for Culture and Community: Muli-Sector Funding, Exhibition Fund Municipal Galleries and Fund Exhibition Fees for Visual Artists.

Galerie im Turm is a facility of the municipality department office Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg.