Following its journey of discovery in 2021, the Berlin-based duo The Mycological Twist once again invites audiences to join them on another journey of discovery in HAU3 for shared gaming sessions of “Farming Simulator”, which was purchased more than three million times this year in only two months. The gaming session on 6.11. will be live streamed on HAU4. In a five-hour tutorial and gaming session, the players will spend time together with experts Aurelia Moniak and Trakal on a virtual farm in Brandenburg. The game and its environment are explored with the help of a series of fie ..read more

(image by: Anna M. Szaflarski, Towards Eternity (Detail), 2021, Digitaldruck, 350 x 250 cm)   We are happy to invite you to: PARALLAXIE 25.06. – 02.10.2022 / Di – So 14 – 17 Uhr Ahmed Isam Aldin, Ulrike Buck, Andrea Canepa, Joel Kuennen, Leslie Kulesh, Albin Looström, Paul DD Smith, Anna M. Szaflarski, Daniel von Bothmer Eingeladen und kuratiert von Kinderhook & Caracas (Sol Calero | Christopher Kline), Kreuzberg Pavillon (Heiko Pfreundt | Lisa Schorm), The Mycological Twist (Eloïse Bonneviot | Anne de Boer)   Zur Eröffnung am Samstag, dem 25.06.2022 um 17 Uhr laden wir herzlich ..read more

We are pleased to be working at the CAPC in Bordeaux until the end of May as part of their residency program Les Furtifs, developed by Marion Vasseur and participating in L’Académie des Mutants, a performance festival developed by Cédric Fauq, During our residency we have been developing a new work, They dig in suitable soil, that will be shown during L’Académie des Mutants between the 6 and 22 of Mai 2022. We are activating the work with game sessions on the 7th, 14th and 21st of May at 15h. You can book a spot on the CAPC website. If in Bordeaux, you are very welcome to join. They dig in Sui ..read more

Register until 13.12. via anmeldung@hebbel-am-ufer.de 15 December: Introducing Workshop #1 16 December: Gaming Session #1 both events with Barbara Marcel and Xenia Chiaramonte. 17 December: Introducing Workshop #2 18 December: Gaming Session #2 (This gaming session is live streamed on HAU4) both events with Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley and Ahmed Isam Aldin. (click here for event page) The Mycological Twist would like to invite you on a quest at HAU3 and organises joint gaming sessions of “No Man’s Sky”. In this game a player can explore a seemingly infinite amount of planets, each with ..read more

12 December 16.00 – 18.00 For Poetik des Publikum, the Mycological Twist has adapted its Game Island into an interactive game session happening in the messaging app Signal. During the game, the audience will be able to create their own identity and shape the story there are going through. Game Island tells the story of a world of mutations resulting out of the climate change. With amorphous game characters based on the elements of water, earth, fire, air and void, the players are led through various narratives, confronted with natural disasters and encouraged to engage in cross-species allianc ..read more

We are part of the 7th Athens Biennale ECLIPSE, co-curated by Omsk Social Club and Larry Ossei-Mensah under the artistic direction of Poka-Yio, taking place from September 24 to November 28 (preview: September 23). Our piece ‘Reverse Synergy’ is on view on the 5th floor of the Former Department Store FOKAS, 41 Stadiou Str. Part of the work exists and happens in the online multiplayer game ECO, by Strange Loop Games. During the duration of the Athens Biennale, the Mycological Twist has invited artists and academics to come, reflect and live with them in game. One group ..read more

We are currently in the principal residency program at La Becque, in La Tour-de-Peilz, Switzerland. We will be working here from September until the end of November 2021. At La Becque we hope to address issues relating to future modes of autonomous production and digital nomadism. In a symbiotic approach to avoid the depletion of natural resources and to reconstitute a sustainable ecosystem, the project endeavors to organize picking sessions in the surrounding area in search of materials that will enable the design of prototypes to be integrated into a hyper-connected home, turned into a hybri ..read more

With Game Island the artist duo The Mycological Twist (Eloïse Bonneviot and Anne de Boer) create a live role-playing game that reconfigures the garden of Kronprinzenpalais as an organic playing field. Game Island tells the story of a world of mutations resulting out of the climate change. With amorphous game characters based on the elements of water, earth, fire, air and void, the players are led through various narratives, confronted with natural disasters and encouraged to engage in cross-species alliances – as a molecule, stone, bacterium or human being, each player is conf ..read more

Games provide a mode of experimentation with alternative strategies and tactics in a competitive and constantly changing environment. Game-worlds gesture towards unrealized potentials; their rules and metaphors can be found in every social or political action. They are at once models of the world and in it. Come play and discover the analogue environment of the game. Troll Swamp is a large-scale board game for multiple players, based on the formats and characters from the popular tabletop game Dungeons & Dragons. The game has been initially developed and tested with various groups in Berge ..read more

The spectrum of digital performance projects is wide. In this workshop, HAU Hebbel am Ufer wants to offer insight into the development of a selection of works that are already connected to HAU or will be associated with HAU in the future. The respective artists will describe current issues in the development process and exchange ideas with invited respondents. For this workshop, Roman Senkl and Nils Corte from minus.eins are creating a digital meeting place together with HAU Hebbel am Ufer. The VR platform mozilla hubs enables artists and audiences to meet and exchange in 3D spaces. In their w ..read more