Techno Worlds runs 25 April to 28 June at the Power Station of Art in Shanghai, the final stop of a five-year international touring exhibition initiated by the Goethe-Institut that has passed through Budapest, Montreal, New York, Berlin, Mexico City, Kolkata and Beijing, among others. Curated by Mathilde Weh, Justin Hoffmann, Creamcake and Sensend, the show brings together 23 groups of works spanning the post-industrial withdrawal of Detroit, Berlin’s urban transformation after reunification, the history of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, and Afrofuturism. Free entry. PSA’s first exhibition dedicated entirely to music and its associated cultures.
The museification of rave is more interesting than it sounds because what these exhibitions are really doing is trying to document something that was specifically designed not to be documented. That’s what made those counter-culture moments so powerful: no phones, no social media, nothing inhibiting expression. Lived experiences rather than mediated ones, the only downside was that very little of it was captured but maybe that’s not really a downside.
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