Entanglements of the Fifth Kind – a collective evening
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| free admission |
| Accessible for wheelchairs |
| Ground Floor, Schlüter Courtyard |
| Belongs to: Airing Out – Open Air in the Schlüter Courtyard |
Will this evening be a rock opera, a performance, a mega jam session or a futuristic critical musical? We don’t know yet, because the five Residents are currently working on their collective evening of newly written songs, visuals and archive material from the depths of the Humboldt Forum.
Only this much should be revealed: We have invited the Berlin-based musicians and artists Emeka Okérèké, Candace Lee Camacho alias duendita, Dhanesh Jayaselan, Gotopo and Batila da Costa, to engage with the Humboldt Forum itself, its curators and collections in the form of a research residency. This dialogue with the house will result in a new concert evening full of perspectives, questions and encounters.
It is a reminiscence of the film Close Encounters of the Third Kind. This science fiction film from the 1980s dispels the notion that “the other” is a threat to our earthly way of life. While some scenes with the aliens are mysterious and frightening, the real message of the film is one of unity and optimism. Instead of fearing forces we don’t understand, we should try to communicate with them and find common ground. All in all, it is a story about embracing a world full of new possibilities. The title of the film derives from ufologist J. Allen Hynek’s classification of close encounters with extraterrestrials, in which the third kind refers to human observations of aliens or “animate beings.”