26/11/2025
For the 20th edition of the Approximation Festival, the Düsseldorf-based IMAI – Inter Media Art Institute presents “When the World Went Out of Tune with Itself.” Drawing on works from the IMAI archive, the program highlights the feminist legacies of experimental electronic soundtracks from the 1970s to today. Since October, a series of interventions, workshops, listening sessions, screenings, and talks have set the tone for the upcoming festival.
This Thursday, 27 November, two special performances and several premieres will take place in cooperation with the Approximation Festival and Callshop Radio.
The starting point of „When the World Went Out of Tune with Itself“ is the collaboration of Delia Derbyshire, Madelon Hooykaas, and Elsa Stansfield on the soundtracks of their early 1970s films. At the transition from film to video, these works bear testimony to a unique sensitivity to collective experimentation in search of new audiovisual languages. As part of Approximation Festival, IMAI will present their rarely screened early films for the first time in Düsseldorf. The films will be installed from 6 until 11pm.
The musical program also features new works by Antonia Alessia Virginia Beeskow (Düsseldorf) and Venus Ex Machina (London), followed by a DJ set by Yonca Yildirim (Cologne/The Hague), which will be streamed though out the Callshop Radio airwaves.
Additionally, there’ll be 2 different premieres over the course of the evening:
1: IMAI will premiere Keta Gavasheli’s two-channel video installation „Untitled“ at 18h. The installation was commissioned by IMAI and developed in dialogue with the sound intervention „Alchemists of Sound“ in Düsseldorf’s Hofgarten.
2: „Ecology of the Body“ by Madelon Hooykaas is on at 21h. For this intimate cinematic journey between body and landscape, Madelon Hooykaas has engaged with her own archive, combining newly shot material with music by Delia Derbyshire and nature sounds from the Stansfield/Hooykaas archive. The screening will be followed by an artist talk with Madelon Hooykaas - streamed on via Callshop Radio.
