Artistic Direction, Concept, Direction: Theresa Reiwer / Co-Direction: David Egger / Text: Theresa Reiwer, Miriam Schmidtke, Alisa Tretau / Dramaturgy: Miriam Schmidtke, Alisa Tretau / Game Design, 3D, Video: Christian Bikadi, David Egger, Josua Rappl / Set Design: Daniel Felgendreher / Music, Sound Design: Bernhard Hollinger, Kenji Tanaka / Creative Coding: Marian Friedrich, Linda Nicolai, Alexandre Silveira / Voice, Performance: Ben Wippel / Copy Editing: Benjamin Haughton, Ben Wippel / Outside Eye: Jonny-Bix Bongers / Set Construction: Alexis Klunder / Lighting, Technical Direction: David Egger / Production Management: Miriam Schmidtke / Press: Tom Müller-Heuser / Special thanks: Adrianus Kundert, Laura Roi, João Santos, Manuel Gutierre
Theresa Reiwer
Internet Explorer
- Game
- Installation
English /
with German subtitles /
100 mins.
In her walk-through installation, Berlin-based (post)digital artist Theresa Reiwer explores the vision of the world wide web as a democratic, solidarity-based commons that is committed to serving people rather than exploiting them.
The online world was once a utopian promise of global connectedness. The experience of discovering the web together has since given way to algorithmically choreographed bubbles. With the platform economy, the way we meet online has changed. Since then, our online interactions have been shaped by profit-driven motives and the systemic amplification of conflict, dynamics that are currently solidifying into fascist structures and extending into physical spaces.
Set against the backdrop of a cyber café, visitors of “Internet Explorer” navigate essayistic video worlds and mini-games that interweave the digital present with earlier online moments. Accompanied by a speculative AI acting as both guide and operating system, they are led to the question of whether the promise of access and participation has ever been fulfilled, or whether existing power structures have merely been reorganised.
Following “Lasting Generation” (premiering at HAU in 2024), this is the second HAU co-production with Reiwer.
Team
Dates
Current
Performances on 12.+13.9.: Part of Berlin Art Week 2026
Price: 15–18 €, reduced 9–12 €
The audience is part of the performance. During the performance, video recordings are made of the audience; these videos are used exclusively for that particular performance and are deleted afterwards.
Credits
Production: Theresa Reiwer. Co-production: HAU Hebbel am Ufer. Funded by: Hauptstadtkulturfonds.
Location
HAU3
Tempelhofer Ufer 10, 10963 BerlinHAU3 unfortunately is not barrier-free. Access to the theatre is via a stairwell (3rd floor). If you need help, please contact our Ticketing & Service team at +49 (0)30 259004-27 or email us at tickets@hebbel-am-ufer.de.
