When the World Went Out of Tune with Itself traces feminist legacies in experimental electronic soundtracks. Anchored in the groundbreaking collaboration of Delia Derbyshire and Elsa Stansfield, the program explores the collaborative, technological, and ethical dimensions of audiovisual practices from the 1970s to today. Through research, workshops, interventions, and new commissions, it asks what it means to sample, borrow, respond to, or honor the sounds of others across time. How can artistic legacies be activated without being appropriated? And how can intergenerational dialogue shape new forms of collaborative practices for the future?
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When the World Went Out of Tune with Itself
Works
Events
Artists
Imprint
This brochure is published to accompany the program When the World Went Out of Tune with Itself, a joint project between IMAI - Inter Media Art Institute and Approximation Festival in Düsseldorf throughout fall 2025.
Program, research, and texts: Linnea Semmerling
Academic consultation: David Butler
Program and editorial assistance: Sumru Tekin, Mia May
Technical consultation and installation: Jonathan Rösen
Graphic design: Massimiliano Audretsch
Digital communication: Andrea Sigrist
Copyediting and translation into German: Good and Cheap Art Translators
© 2025, Stiftung IMAI ––– Inter Media Art Institute, the artists, the author. All rights reserved.
ISBN 978-3-00-084612-0
