Part of ProtoZone18: Unfamiliar Evermore, 14.03.2025-11.05.2025

Hi-Intensity: Film Premiere, 15.03.2025, 14:30

Lo-Intensity 16.03 – 11.05.2025: Screening in Rotation

Falling in Love With the World is a first series of video-documented performative discussion circles that question our limited notions of attraction and beauty. The aim is to appreciate and respect plurality in the world not only as an abstract philosophical principle, but also in everyday life.

To this end, a group of volunteers comes together to talk about personal aversions and how they affect them and their environment. The group playfully develops exercises aimed at overcoming these dislikes and then tries them out. Falling in Love with the World is provided by the Army of Love, a solidarity that promotes the redistribution of sensual love to all those who need it.

Directed by Ingo Niermann & Frédérique Vivet, filmed by Nefeli Chrysa Avgeris & Fréderique Vivet. With Mahrus Harnadi, Sophie Jung, Birgit Kempker, Engy Mohsen, Ingo Niermann & Jacob Ott. 2025

BIO:

Ingo Niermann (* 1969, Bielefeld, Germany) is a writer, an artist and the editor of the speculative book series Solution. His debut novel Der Effekt was published in 2001. Recently published book include The Monadic Age: Notes on the Coming Social Order (2024) and Solution 295-304: Mare Amoris (2020). Recent art installations include Falling in Love With the World (2023) and Welcome to My World (2023, with Alex Jordan). Recently published films include Walder and Eigner (2023/4, with Erik Niedling), Positive Terror – 7 Tuturials (2023), Deutsch Süd-Ost (2020), Sea Lovers (2020) and Oceano de amor (2019, with Alexa Karolinski).

Niermann initiated numerous projects: He co-founded the revolutionary collective Redesigndeutschland (2000), conceived a tomb for all people, the Great Pyramid (thegreatpyramid.de, 2007), and, together with Rem Koolhaas, he has been building a tool for public ballots – Vote – in Gwangju, Korea (2014). In 2014, Niermann started the digital publishing project Fiktion with Haus der Kulturen der Welt in Berlin (fiktion.cc) and, in 2023, the digital publishing project Wild Papers with Institute Art Gender Nature, HGK Basel FHNW (wildpapers.ch). Based on his novel Solution 257: Complete Love (2016), Niermann initiated the Army of Love (thearmyoflove.net), a project that tests and promotes a need-oriented redistribution of sensual love.

His work has been featured at Yokohama Triennale, Berlin Biennale, Istanbul Biennale, dOCUMENTA(13), La Biennale di Venezia, MACBA, MoMA, mumok, Castello di Rivoli, ZKM, Steirischer Herbst, and Guggenheim New York. Niermann studied Philosophy and Sociology at Freie Universität Berlin and is currently living in Basel.

www.ingoniermann.ch

www.ingoniermann.com