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Late Night: operative image
Date details
- Date Saturday, 29/August/2026 22:00
- Venue Deutsche Oper Berlin
- Address Bismarckstraße 35, 10627 Berlin-Charlottenburg
Public transportation
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Underground
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U Deutsche Oper
- U2
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U Bismarckstr.
- U2
- U7
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U Richard-Wagner-Platz
- U7
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U Deutsche Oper
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Bus
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U Deutsche Oper
- N2
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U Bismarckstr.
- N2
- N7
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Bismarckstr./Leibnizstr.
- 101
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Bismarckstr./Kaiser-Friedrich-Str.
- 109
- 309
- N7
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Warburgzeile
- 109
- M45
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Otto-Suhr-Allee/Leibnizstr.
- 101
- 109
- M45
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Berlin, Goethestr.
- 101
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U Richard-Wagner-Platz
- N7
- 109
- M45
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U Wilmersdorfer Str.
- 309
- M49
- X34
- X49
- U7
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Haubachstr.
- 109
- 309
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Berlin, Kaiser-Friedrich-Str./Kantstr.
- M49
- X34
- 309
- X49
- S41
- S42
- 109
- N7
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U Wilmersdorfer Str./S Charlottenburg
- X49
- 309
- U7
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Berlin, Kantstr./Leibnizstr.
- M49
- X34
- 101
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Eosanderstr.
- 109
- M45
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Zillestr.
- 309
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U Sophie-Charlotte-Platz
- 309
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U Deutsche Oper
Late Night: operative image
Alif Hilal
© Frankie Casillo
Jan Vorisek
© monsefwinteler
Why Be
© Nadine Fraczkowski
We are surrounded by views. Drone footage, dashcam feeds, the infinite scroll images that work, that process, that convert the living world into legible, trainable material. Harun Farocki called these operational images: pictures made not to be seen but to execute, to sort, to act upon the world without passing through human perception at all. In a moment of polycrisis, when the image-system and the crisis-system have become indistinguishable, we have learned to read ourselves the same way. A coordinate. A data point. A body rendered from arm's length. The operational image doesn't represent reality so much as perform a labour upon it. And we have become fluent in this: the outward gaze, the thousand angles, the self understood as a coordinate inside a vast and humming system.
Opera means work. So does the image. So does the data point that knows your location before you do.
OMSK Social Club's new work, departing from their earlier work The Cryptorave Series, turns the angle invited to collaborate with Rirkrit Tiravanija and Landon Wilson on the relocation of a community of ravers to the stage of the Deutsche Oper, lifted from their dancefloors and placed inside the house's architecture, its sightlines, its boxes. Something shifts. The crowd that has always been rendered by its sacred Berlin archetypes has instead to re-render itself anew in this landscape, seeing its own shape, its own motion, its own exits.
In a landscape saturated with outward-facing images, where selfhood accumulates slowly from feeds, framing the turn inward is not a retreat. It is a different kind of work. The kind that happens when something passes between bodies in a room that no system was built to capture. Sound bleeds between the opera archive and the frequencies of the club. A live document writes itself from inside the event. The threshold stays open.
Expect a lineup. Expect a stage. What you will find is something less announced and more contagious: conspiratorial messages, prompts, contingencies, a live game unfolding across the evening with no single point of entry and no guaranteed path through. OMSK Social Club's nodes move through the crowd, carrying scores that fork, that replicate, that mutate. You may find the thread and follow it. You may lose it entirely and surface inside a different fiction. Both are the work.
10.00 pm – 11.30 pm Alif Hilal (fka Lyra Pramuk)
11.30 pm – 1.00 am Why Be
1.00 am – 2.30 am Jan Vorisek
2.30 am – 4.00 am mi-el
Opera means work. So does the image. So does the data point that knows your location before you do.
OMSK Social Club's new work, departing from their earlier work The Cryptorave Series, turns the angle invited to collaborate with Rirkrit Tiravanija and Landon Wilson on the relocation of a community of ravers to the stage of the Deutsche Oper, lifted from their dancefloors and placed inside the house's architecture, its sightlines, its boxes. Something shifts. The crowd that has always been rendered by its sacred Berlin archetypes has instead to re-render itself anew in this landscape, seeing its own shape, its own motion, its own exits.
In a landscape saturated with outward-facing images, where selfhood accumulates slowly from feeds, framing the turn inward is not a retreat. It is a different kind of work. The kind that happens when something passes between bodies in a room that no system was built to capture. Sound bleeds between the opera archive and the frequencies of the club. A live document writes itself from inside the event. The threshold stays open.
Expect a lineup. Expect a stage. What you will find is something less announced and more contagious: conspiratorial messages, prompts, contingencies, a live game unfolding across the evening with no single point of entry and no guaranteed path through. OMSK Social Club's nodes move through the crowd, carrying scores that fork, that replicate, that mutate. You may find the thread and follow it. You may lose it entirely and surface inside a different fiction. Both are the work.
10.00 pm – 11.30 pm Alif Hilal (fka Lyra Pramuk)
11.30 pm – 1.00 am Why Be
1.00 am – 2.30 am Jan Vorisek
2.30 am – 4.00 am mi-el
Artists/Collaborators: OMSK Social Club (Featuring), mi - el (with), Jan Vorisek (with), Why Be (with), Alif Hilal (with)
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