Frederike Moormann
Connectedness
A multimedia installation along places, that don’t receive each other anymore
16. May 2025 – 02. November 2025Brandenburg Museum/ “Signale der Macht”
Sound- & Video Installation
Grass, antennas, stones. Musicians play against old and new infrastructures. The fields around three old radio stations, formerly connected to each other, sway in the wind. ‘We did some research. In the archives in Windhoek and Berlin. In the archives of the Telefunken company. Something doesn't seem right to us.’
The installation invites to listen to the far away through horns, telegraphy and radio. It tells the violent story of genocide in Namibia 1904-1908, of the connected extraction and supression, of voices that have been silenced. These stories have strong echoes today.
We see and hear the artists walking through the colonial telegraphy stations. In Togo and Namibia, only ruins remain of the radio stations. Meanwhile, in Germany, a few remaining employees continue to broadcast everywhere. We hear stories about the continuity of telecommunication - across time and space horn music is playing.
Today, thousands of satellites fly through space, enabling us to research and connect with each other. ‘We are literally moving from one space, one planet to the next, to destroy as much as possible, not to heal. Sometimes I wonder if we want to heal anything at all.’
The installation opens up a transcultural dialogue between the three places that were violently connected to each other.
Link to Exhibition at Brandenburg Museum
Script & Direction - Frederike Moormann, Angelika Waniek
In collaboration with – Nashilongweshipwe Mushaandja & Fati Fousseni
Texts - Léonard Yakanou, Angelika Waniek, Frederike Moormann
Music - Luka Mukhavele, Gundolf Nandico, Robert Machiri, Kako Sanogo
Recordings - Lefteris Krysalis, Frederike Moormann
Interview - Harald Hauschildt, Christopher Vasko, West Uarije, Tuli Mekondjo
Outside Eye - Mèhèza Kalibani
Guest performer – Fati Fousseni
Production – Brandenburg Museum
Curation – Katalin Krasznahorkai
Thanks - Nora Frohmann