20160815

Is there life after HD? And most of all: will awareness begin to revolt at some time when HD is implanted in all of our minds as a standard without alternative? Such questions seem to be at the conceptual base of Tina Frank’s 20160815. This is not the first time that she has collaborated with Pita (Peter Rehberg), whose track, 20150609 congenially elevates Frank’s eruptive pop-approach to a higher, shared, techno-visionary level. In doing so, both share the intention of radically undermining the smooth, unquestioned aspects of digital culture. That is, they intend to help a rawness and roughness, which we have learned to deliberately omit in the course of increasingly finer-grained dispositifs of seeing and hearing, attain new brilliance and topicality. (Christian Höller)