Date: June 22nd 2009

Schedule/locations/information before/on the day:

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Breakthrough is created as an experimental 12 hour event distributed
across Berlin locations, inter-network and radio space. Self-organising
nodes construct an event occupied with the dislocation of representation
[language, software], time and space, and maintained with a strict
scheduling and interrupt system backbone (micro-FM and Internet).

The term breakthrough describes a sudden shift in understanding or
technologies, and, finally, a clearing (Lichtung), an entry into
unknown and unmapped territories. An enclosure is breached allowing
access to another, totally unforeseen state or space. Communication is
thus implied, a new form of exchange, perhaps between two otherwise
unconnected domains, between the living and the dead, between many
worlds. What does the sheer possibility of a breakthrough imply for
communication between the past and the future?

Breakthrough, as event, signals a change in direction, a pointing
towards new ways of actively describing and creating the world. Within
a complex mise en scene of workshops, lectures and performances,
diverse artists, theorists, researchers, and hackers collaborate in
the creation of a breakthrough which can rupture the enclosure of
scientific rationalism and enlightenment without recourse to named
magic.

**Participants:

Benjamin Laurent Aman, Sam Ashley, backyardradio Berlin, Ana Buigues,
Benjamin Cadon, Alejo Duque, Leif Elggren, Verena Friedrich, Kathrin
Guenter, Derek Holzer, Brendan Howell, Martin Howse, Jonathan Kemp,
Martin Kuentz, Bjørn Magnhildøen, Olga Panadés Massanet, PATO,
Shintaro Miyazaki, Douglas Park, Thomas Ploentzke, Otto Rossler, Alia
Scalvini, Der Tapeman, TeleKommunisten, Adam Thomas, Marcel Türkowsky,
Danja Vassiliev

**Constructivist workshop:

Breakthrough will be constructed and prepared within a three day
workshop at _____micro_research

2PM 24,25,26 June 2009. Linienstrasse 54. Berlin 10119

**Postscript:

1]

Byrne: "I do not want to get a long half-hour involvement about Faraday cages, diodes, or transistors and so on. Ken, in very simple language and very shortly, have you been able to break this thing technically?"

Attwood: "Technically, no."


[Voices From The Tapes. Peter Bander. 1973]

2]

Whatever you feed into the machine on subliminal level the machine will process–So we feed in 'dismantle thyself' […] We fold in writers of all time in together and record radio programs, movie sound tracks, TV and juke box songs all the words of the world stirring around in a cement mixer and pour in the resistance message "Calling partisans of all nation–Cut word lines–Shift linguals–Free doorways–Vibrate 'tourists'–Word falling–Photo falling–Breakthrough in Grey Room.

[William S. Burroughs. The Soft Machine. 1961]
Details

** Details

Breakthough is supported by:

Hauptstadtkulturfonds, Berlin 2009

With the assistance and collaboration of:

backyardradio Berlin

General Public

Mute Magazine

STYX Project Space

Skulpturenpark Berlin_Zentrum

ua.

A production of:

_____-micro_research, pickledfeet, Linienstrasse 54, Berlin 10119

U2, Rosa-Luxemburg-Pl. U8, Rosenthaler Pl.

Telephone: 3050187482.