Utopia Today x REX Box

31.08.–4.10.2023, daily, 13:30 to 24:00

9.09.2023, 16:30 til 17:30 in room REX2: Introduction and screening of video works by Ueli von Allmen with his guitar.

Kassenhaus des Kino REX Bern, Schwanengasse 9, 3011 Bern.

Artists: Mohamed Badarne, Maria Marshall, Paulina Ruiz Carballido, Rupert Jörg, Ueli von Allmen.

Curated by Ueli von Allmen, Interlaken.

Children's Movements

How do we learn from each other and how does inspiration arise? Can the future show itself in the present? How does joy arise? What is the relationship between inspiration and joy? 

These are questions preoccupying me and giving direction to my life. Children tend to live more intuitively and welcome the natural whole, always in motion. As soon as they are stimulated, inspired, they become active and see the world with their own eyes. They become inspired, using all their senses and start playing. It is not easy to see and follow "their film". We humans have different perspectives and perceptions. Childishness is robbed from us by the meritocracy, being a child becomes alien to us. There is no time for dreaming when everything revolves around money, around appearances and no longer around just being.

When we watch the selected video works with others, we are united for a short moment in front of the oeuvre. Our own projections are inspired by it and we can enter into conversation under favourable condition. Being in dialogue with myself is my central concern. Because only in this way do I have a good connection and can empathise with my counterpart. This is how empathy works and it inspires me when I can follow a personally coloured narrative and discover myself in it.