Aernout Mik Speaking in Tongues with Lars Eidinger, Burkhart Klaußner, and many others November 15, 2013–January 12, 2014 Opening: November 14, 7pm Speculative Staging, 8pm Discussion with Aernout Mik (artist, Amsterdam), Martijn Oosterbaan (cultural anthropologist, Amsterdam), Stefan Heidenreich (author, Berlin). Moderated by Sabeth Buchmann (art historian, Vienna/Berlin) Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin Dutch video artist Aernout Miks work Speaking in Tongues makes manifestations of new transnational religious movements experienceable. The multichannel installation places documentary video recordings of Pentecostal churches in Brazil and Nigeria within enactments of collective rituals of the business world. Developed in the framework of the art and research project Global Prayers, Miks latest work Speaking in Tongues is being premiered at Haus der Kulturen der Welt. The renowned German actors Lars Eidinger (Everyone else by Maren Ade) and Burkhart Klaußner (The White Ribbon by Michael Haneke), as well as over two hundred extras, and the building itself all play key roles. Emergent religious movements around the world commonly promise redemption and liberation, as well as material prosperity. These movements follow the model of international companies. Aernout Miks large-scale video installation juxtaposes new kinds of religious communities with secular gatherings of the business world, which for their part have incorporated veiled religious rituals and features. Documentary video footage of Pentecostal churches in Lagos, Belo Horizonte, and Rio de Janeiro is brought together with staged business meetings and improvised performances at Haus der Kulturen der Welt. What initially is clearly a business event mutates into an ambiguous form marked by the blending of secular and religious motifs and collective rituals, as well as the spread of the trancelike state of speaking in tongues. From diverse source material, a landscape of the transitions between the religious and the secular emerges.
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