THE CURRENCY LAB - tɛknoʊmædʒɪkɛs =

Elom 20ce, Musquiqui Chihying, Gregor Kasper

03-12 Oct.2025

THE CURRENCY

As part of their transcontinental, multidisciplinary, collective practice, Elom 20ce (Togo), Musquiqui Chihying (Taiwan) and Gregor Kasper (Germany) explore the possibilities of currencies in their long-term artistic research project THE CURRENCY, capitalist logics, exploitation and power structures in order to re-explore the relationships between people and their interactions with the non-human world.

An important part of this is the collective exchange and collaboration with artists, scientists and activists. The group has therefore invited other people to C.Rockefeller, with whom they regularly collaborate as part of THE CURRENCY: Kwamou Eva Feukeu (Cameroon/France), Onesa Oruoghor (Nigeria), Dodji Efoui (Togo).

tɛknoʊmædʒɪkɛs

The presentation at C.Rockefeller revolves around tɛknoʊmædʒɪkɛs - an invented term written in phonetic transcription that combines the two fields of technology and magic in a multi-layered way. It creates a framework, a working method and an interdisciplinary space that explores the connections between technicity and cosmology.

tɛknoʊmædʒɪkɛs sees itself as a polyphonic orchestra consisting of a sea of harmonies and dissonances, absorbing different frequencies, vibrations, sounds and rhythms to create a symphonic assemblage.

The filmic trilogy tɛknoʊmædʒɪkɛs from THE CURRENCY's Sensing series takes centre stage. She is a fluid, polyphonic journey from three stops on the Gulf of Guinea: Agbogbloshie - the world's roughest electronic waste recycling centre in Accra/Ghana; Ladipo - a dense used car parts market in Lagos/Nigeria and Kailend - an idyllic organic farm and alternative grassroots school at the foot of Togo's highest mountain Agou.

In these special places, tɛknoʊmædʒɪkɛs explores the connections between different technological and spiritual spheres and questions the values of life beyond the economic logic of global capitalism. It follows different cycles of life and death, permanent processes of recycling and rebirth, and explores different frequencies, rhythms and voices from the visible and invisible world.

Performance

At the opening on 3.10, Elom 20ce, Musquiqui Chihying and Gregor Kasper will explore various material, temporal, geopolitical and technological perspectives on GOLD in a performance dedicated to Dresden's entanglements with West Africa and East Asia.

Programme

3.10.2025 7 pm - Opening:

Performance by Elom 20ce, Musquiqui Chihying, Gregor Kasper together with Katharina Kasper

5.10.2025 3 - 5 pm - Sound workshop:
Registration: lab@the-currency.net

Opening times:

3 Oct. from 7 pm

4 Oct. & 5 Oct. 2025 2 - 6 pm

and by appointment