Internet Explorer

Theresa Reiwer

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.

90 mins.

Artists/Collaborators: Theresa Reiwer (Künstlerische Leitung, Konzept, Regie), David Egger (Co-Regie), Theresa Reiwer (Text), Miriam Schmidtke (Text), Alisa Tretau (Text), Miriam Schmidtke (Dramaturgie), Alisa Tretau (Dramaturgie), Christian Bikadi (Creative Coding, Game Design, 3D, Video), David Egger (Creative Coding, Game Design, 3D, Video), Josua Rappl (Creative Coding, Game Design, 3D, Video), Daniel Felgendreher (Bühnenbild, Raum), Theresa Reiwer (Bühnenbild, Raum), Bernhard Hollinger (Musik, Sounddesign), Kenji Tanaka (Musik, Sounddesign), Alexandre Silveira (KI), Alexis Klunder (Bühnenbau), David Egger (Licht, Technische Leitung), Miriam Schmidtke (Produktionsleitung), Tom Müller-Heuser (Presse)

Next date:

• Date Saturday, 12/September/2026 18:00 ( 12 more dates )
• Venue Hebbel am Ufer - HAU2
• Address Hallesches Ufer 32, 10963 Berlin-Kreuzberg