Junge Szene spawning alt-reality

About the two-part exhibition series pseudo-co.: spawning alt-reality  pseudo-co.:


spawning alt-reality deliberately pushes itself into a fold of the retail space - in two acts - and examines how bodies dissolve, mutate and merge in the consumer space.
Subjects who possess nothing - whose lives are tied to fleeting bonus points of happiness - wander through virtual medieval corridors. Paradoxically, individualisation is intensifying while at the same time dissolving into swarms of data. If capital is a self-replicating algorithm, then the bio-digital mutation that flows through this architecture is its fuel.


In the glare of capitalist realism, gondolas and LED signs crystallise into a hypnagogic state. Even in the knowledge of emptiness, we continue to invest desire and guilt in the commodity, anchoring enjoyment (‘jouissance’) in every ‘limited offer’. With hardly any affective resistance left - and as the overall fire accelerates - pseudo-co. transforms the shopping centre into a playing field of these forces: a space of tension in which visitors must decide whether to inhabit, parasitise or hack it (guest, parasite or co-agent). 


Finissage: 7 June, 7 pm


Curated by Yun Kima in collaboration with Mano Leyrado


Admission is free


pseudo-co.: spawning alt-reality takes place as part of the Pankow art festival artspring berlin (2 May-1 June 2025) 

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