Date: 6 September 2025
Time: 16:00
Place: DOCK 11 / DOCKdigital, SAAL 4
Kastanienallee 79, 10435 Berlin
free entry
Realtime Affairs is a regular meet-up for artists, cultural practitioners, and interested audiences who are passionate about digital media, performing arts, and theory. Initiated by DOCKdigital, Realtime Affairs creates a vibrant space for sharing knowledge, inspiring collaboration, and exploring novel approaches.
This edition will focus on The Aesthetic Construction of (Embodied) Realities.
Qusay Awad and Engy El Shenawy & Federico Zurani will share selected works and offer insights into their workflows and artistic practices. Together, we will reflect on questions such as: How do digital systems shape our perception and conception of reality? How does this interact with, influence, or disrupt our bodies? What happens when subjective and collective memory clash or intersect?
Confronted with the entanglements of political failure and the instrumentalization of media in the so-called post-truth era, we examine the potential of creative practices in articulating counter-narratives as a form of resistance.
Admission is free, with the opportunity to support the Lemon Tree Collective providing humanitarian aid for families in Gaza, Egypt, and Syria.
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Qusay Awad (born 1995, As-Suwayda, Syria) is a Berlin-based architect and multimedia artist working at the intersection of spatial and archival research and audiovisual practice. Through site-responsive installations, Awad’s practice explores themes of violence and remembrance. While constructing counter-memories, he examines how re-narrating spaces can bear witness to history. His artistic methods include 3D and sound design, video, field recording, performance and sculpture. His works have been presented at institutions and festivals including SAVVY Contemporary, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Maxim Gorki Theater, CTM Festival (Berlin, Germany), B7L9 Art Centre (Tunisia), Fondazione Merz (Turin, Italy), Ancienne Belgique (Brussels, Belgium), GMEA (Albi, France), and Frequent Defect (Beirut, Lebanon).
Federico Zurani is an artist and game designer based in Berlin. His research primarily revolves around the underlying narratives and imageries of both modern and historical images and imageries, with a particular emphasis on the romantic and modern/scientific imaginary.
Engy El Shenawy is a visual designer and researcher exploring socio-political and cultural questions through visual design, 3D simulation, and speculative approaches. She investigates the aesthetics of politics and how past and future intersect in virtual and cultural spaces. Her research focuses on image mapping and GIS, using visual data to create new spatial narratives.
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Curated by Jonny-Bix Bongers & Olivia Al-Slaiman