“Maybe we’ve all upgraded to abnormcore.” cbcb2000 does a deep dive into the triumphant return of art collective DIS to Berlin.
“I saw a really funny TikTok the other day, which was these two boys pulling up to a gallery. It was captioned something like, ‘We got bored with clubbing so now we go to art openings,’” Sam Staples tells me. Staples is part of the curatorial team at Schinkel Pavillon, the art institution run by Nina Pohl responsible for bringing collective DIS back to Berlin for the first time in seven years.
What one might call “Generation bb9” spilled out of both doors and into the streets surrounding the Schinkel Pavillon last Friday night as they celebrated DIS’s Berlin return. Long-affiliated artists such as Christopher Kulendran Thomas, Annika Kuhlmann, and Timur Si-Qin were in attendance, so too were many new faces: cute kids in long skirts and tights, ears lined with silver hoops glistening behind their grown out bleached hair. “Maybe we’ve all upgraded toco-host Lil Internet suggests.
Naturally, many of Berlin’s brightest fashion minds came out on Friday. While the film played upstairs, the opening was fêted in the dungeon-like, minimally-lit Schinkel Klause below with DJ sets by DIS family Ashland Mines AKA DJ Bobby Beethoven and Hood By Air’s Shayne Oliver.
Schinkel director, Lina Louisa Krämer together with co-curator Klara Hülskamp had worked on bb9 and, appreciative of DIS’s continued impact beyond legacy art channels, invited them to present the pilot of their forthcoming docu-sci-fi series,. In the gallery, the work was projected onto a custom-shaped surface capable of accommodating just about every aspect ratio our multi-screened world demands.
When DIS started in the late aughts, it was the brainchild of a group of 20-somethings who saw the horizon line of legacy media and 20th century cultural discourse fast approaching and then actually did something about it. “We were like, ‘We have so many friends who aren’t getting seen,’” recalls Boyle. “We wanted to make things that made sense online. At the time, publishing was stuck, the music industry was starting to malfunction, and fashion—fashion.
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