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<div><b>ARE YOU FOR REAL</b><br>
A new, web-based project<br>
December 10, 2020<br>
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<div>Realness exists on many levels and through different perspectives
and temporalities. What is real about an entire continent, a country,
or a person?<br>
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<div><b>ARE YOU FOR REAL</b> is a new, participatory web-based
project, testing unique and interactive artistic practices. It brings
together artists, researchers, filmmakers, writers and coders to
create exclusive works, each offering an understanding of and approach
towards the concept of "reality."<br>
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<div>Initiated by ifa and curated by<b> Julia Grosse, Paula
Nascimento</b> and<b> Yvette Mutumba</b>,<b> ARE YOU FOR REAL</b>
launches in December with newly commissioned participative and
interactive digital works by artists<b> Nushin Yazdani & Can
Karaalioglu</b> and<b> Nolan Oswald Dennis</b> via an online platform
designed and coded by<b> Yehwan Song</b>.<br>
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<div>How do we interpret and apprehend what we are seeing and
experiencing? Are privileged perspectives becoming more real than
others? Who can judge if something is real? Who is allowed to judge?
Can digital space ever be a neutral location?<br>
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<div><b>ARE YOU FOR REAL</b> is about engaging with and visualising
connections of people, thoughts, things, and places-communication
happening through the trading and training of data. It addresses the
material and immaterial aspects of the digital, and how these are
perceived from the perspectives of various disciplines.<br>
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<div>This ongoing project is a platform of exchange that supports
formats such as exhibitions, workshops, digital art spaces and apps.
Physical events will be planned over the course of the project, taking
place in arbitrarily chosen sites, as wide-ranging as betting halls,
post offices, gaming venues and cultural centres.<br>
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<div>While there is no intention of forming a linear narrative, a
thread links events and creates moments of encounter, generating
conversations between perspectives and concepts and exploring the
overlaps and interstices that link fields, formats, and contexts.
Contributors have been and will be commissioned to create works that
offer us various understandings of, and approaches to, reality.<br>
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<div><b>ARE YOU FOR REAL</b> aims to create an international cultural
exchange as well as a contemporary co-creative practice of
exhibition-making, challenging the inflexibility of the classic
touring format while investigating other models. The artworks produced
will change over the course of the project, as new artists join and
take over, add and react. This means that certain qualities of a
travelling exhibition will become visible, articulated through the
touring of thought and the changes and traces in each work.<br>
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<div>Among the projects being launched in December 2020 are works by
artists<b> Nolan Oswald Dennis</b> and<b> Nushin Yazdani & Can
Karaalioglu</b> and contributors<b> Ibrahim Cissé & Asmaa Jama,
João Renato Orecchia Zúñiga, Nelly Y. Pinkrah, Ainslee Alem
Robson & Kidus Hailesilassie</b> and<b> Michelle M.
Wright</b>.<br>
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<div><b>About the artworks</b><br>
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<div><b>Nolan Oswald Dennis (developed with Noa Mori):</b><br>
<i>a sun.black</i><b>, 2020, essay-game</b><br>
Commissioned and produced on behalf of ifa,<i> a sun.black</i> is
inspired by Dambudzo Marechera's<i> Black Sunlight</i> and Toni Cade
Bambara's<i> On the Issue of Roles</i>, taking the form of a
generative essay-game; a procedural study in distributed poetics where
every fragmented statement is assembled from bits and pieces,
estranged and recollected.<br>
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<div><b>Nushin Yazdani & Can Karaalioglu:</b><br>
<i>Into the Pluriverse</i><b>, 2020, VR work</b><br>
<b>Ðfeat. Aylin Karabulut, Dounia Hagenauer, Rafiou Bayor, Tiara
Roxanne and Ulla Heinrich</b><br>
Commissioned and produced on behalf of ifa, this virtual reality work
explores the idea of what is real. With<i> Into the Pluriverse</i>, we
enter through a wormhole into seven different lives, different places
and different perspectives. One by one, we encounter seven people,
Aylin Karabulut, Dounia Hagenauer, Rafiou Bayor, Tiara Roxanne and
Ulla Heinrich, as well as the artists themselves, and experience how
their thoughts interact.</div>
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How do these artists, scientists, and feminists envision our
collective future? What do they fight and wish for? What do they have
to say to each other? What questions arise within this discourse? We
invite you to explore ARE YOU FOR REAL to find out.<br>
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<div><b>About ifa</b></div>
<div>ifa (Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen) is Germany's oldest
intermediary organisation for international cultural relations. It
promotes a peaceful and enriching coexistence between people and
cultures worldwide. ifa supports artistic and cultural exchange in
exhibition, dialogue and conference programmes, and it acts as a
centre of excellence for international cultural relations. It is part
of a global network and relies on sustainable, long-term partnerships.
It is supported by the Federal Foreign Office of the Federal Republic
of Germany, the state of Baden-Württemberg and its capital
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