The exhibition Jenseits der Grenzen (Beyond the Limits) collects together three photo projects by Mitra Tabrizian from the years 1998 to 2001: Minimal Utopia, Silent Majority and the eight-part photo series Beyond the Limits. The large-format photographs depict apparently android people in an autistic world. Unscrupulous, highly-developed technologies make it seem that everything is for sale and can be replaced; even conscience becomes an exchangeable product. Tabrizian's dystopian science fiction belongs to the tradition of filmic narratives. However, the audience is not seduced by sentimental cinematic arrangements, but is confronted with a strangely emotionless, one might even say antiseptic, flawless world. A provocative indifference is dominant, even in the most bloody of dramas, and it almost appears as if human sympathy is no longer in keeping with the times. Here the omnipresent "corporate culture" is presented with an aesthetic mirror image, for these bizarre simulations of political and social situations prove to be exaggerated images of social developments. Art does not invent. It merely shows the potential tendencies of our reality in a radical way.

26th March - 11th April 2004

Sonic Arts Lounge | Norden & Berlin Thursday, 25th March 2004, 10 pm Casino at Künstlerhaus Bethanien Carl Michael von Hausswolff, Oval aka Markus Popp, Computer, Electro Music Department, DJ Mo, Kotai & Daniel Pflumm A cooperation of Künstlerhaus Bethanien and MaerzMusik | Berliner Festspiele

Marc Weiser, Musik, Lillevän, Video, und Christian Conrad, Musik, in einer Rauminstallation von Bert Neumann Thursday, 18th March, 2004, 9 pm The concert is part of the programme of the 3rd berlin biennal at Kunst-Werke Berlin, Auguststr. 69 The cooperation of Künstlerhaus Bethanien, 3rd berlin biennal for contemporary art and Maerz Musik | Berliner Festspiele is part of the exhibition .ipeg bild.ton. maschine