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Spazju Kreattiv cordially invites you to the
opening of the GLITCH:
ONTOLOGICAL EXHAUSTIONS & SYSTEM FAILURESexhibition at
Space C, Spazju Kreattiv on
Friday 14th of March at 7 pm.
We
look forward to a welcome from Elmar Kohlhofer, Embassy of
Federal Republic of Germany Valletta, Daniel Azzopardi,
Artistic Director of Spazju Kreattiv, from Prof. Dr.
Michael Betancourt (Research Artist, USA, Georgia) and
Verena Voigt M.A. (Curator).
With the group exhibition GLITCH: ONTOLOGICAL
EXHAUSTION & SYSTEM FAILURES, Spazju Kreattiv
transforms into an amplifier for reflections on digitality
& resistance, history & remembrance. Aesthetic
"disruptions" (glitches) created in the exhibits challenge
the audience to think critically and historically about
the state of our technology-dependent society, enabling an
international comparison of protest movements over the
past 100 years.
Glitching reveals the fragile boundaries of existence we
no longer perceive as our own but as belonging to
technology—a discomforting realm of technocracy and
external, authoritarian control. We encounter a world of
the non-physical, one that we neither fully understand nor
control, where surveillance, automation, and algorithmic
dependency creates complex states of exhaustion and
learned helplessness, which leads us down uncertain
passages.
How old is the glitch? If we believe historical sources,
it has always existed. The Tractatus de Penitentia (c.
1285) by Johannes Galensis (John of Wales) introduces a
subversive demon named Titivillus, the "patron demon of
scribes," who collected errors: omitted, mumbled, and
mispronounced words—especially those that clerics were
said to have “stolen from God” during their morning
prayers. He carefully preserved these glitches for their
indictment at the end of days.
The history of resistance in East Germany demonstrates
that it is indeed possible to rewrite a hegemonic canon
that was meant to be forgotten. With the help of powerful
but glitching programs, the erased self-assertion of
forgotten resistance fighters can be reinscribed into the
historical record of European literature.
For digital artists, Glitch Art provides a metaphysical
toolkit to visualize, interpret, challenge—then
deconstruct—technocratic, dictatorial, or repressive
systems and their neoliberal, communist, and capitalist
designs for human capture/control.
Artists: Ruth Bianco, Joana Moll, Katrin Leitner, Nadja
Verena Marcin, Michael Betancourt, Ian Keaveny, and Niklas
Washausen. Curator: Verena Voigt
The project is supported by the Goethe Institute, the
German-Maltese Circle, and the Valletta Design Cluster
Satellite event 1:
Reading and discussion with Ines Geipel & Verena Voigt
The German Double Helix of Memory
March
19, 7 p.m.
Satellite event 2:
Daria’s Vision: Resistance, Spatial Dissolution, and
Slowness
With Ruth Bianco & Verena Voigt
May
4, 11 a.m.
We
look forward to seeing you at Spazju Kreattiv! Further
details may be found in the attached invitation. To learn
more about the exhibition, kindly visit
https://kreattivita.org/en/event/glitch-ontological-exhaustions-system-failures/
image © crash-stop aka Ian.Keaveny, New
Ancestors (3), 2025 (7 Video-Installations): 2d to 3d
conversion and
animation of images of censored and imprisoned East German
writers (1945-89): Inge Müller (13.3.1925–66)
