Part of Creamcake’s festival 3hd 2022: Life, the Universe, and Everything the group show Don’t Panic featured works by George Henry Longly, JAZSALYN, Katja Novitskova, Lito Kattou, Sofia Moreno and Tianzhuo Chen, each responding to contemporary cosmologies, and presenting an expanded glance into notions of worldbuilding, through the spaces we inhabit, terrestrial limits, and outer bounds. Crossing sculpture, installation, video and an opening performance, the Creamcake-curated exhibition investigated technology, notions of reality, spirituality, and space colonization, as well as ecological complexity, right here on Earth.  

JAZSALYN presented AI-driven computational studies to re-indigenize algorithms and reimagine lost histories and technologies, while Lito Kattou’s sculptures of hybrid, extra-terrestrial figures are inscribed with dates of personal anniversaries, as well as natural disasters related to climate change occurring in the South Eastern Mediterranean region. Tianzhuo Chen expanded on his experimentations with elements and symbols found in religion, ritual, and subcultures, refiguring his past performance work into a large-scale tarot-like LED video installation. Katja Novitskova presented new works from her series Earthware, suggesting a new kind of visual landscape art depicting life across the planetary planes, and George Henry Longly followed his practice’s explorations of terrestrial and bodily extremities, from space to the deep sea, with a mixed media work as a constellation or diagram. Finally, Sofia Moreno presented an installation drawing from her lived experience and personal mythologies to reflect on her Mexican cultural heritage—reclaiming and refashioning Mesoamerican mythology to highlight ancient views of the cosmos.

Creamcake (CC) is a Berlin-based interdisciplinary platform, negotiating the point of convergence in electronic music, contemporary art and digital technologies. Distanced from normative social structures, Creamcake moves in fluid processes of thought and action and engages with current social issues of the present through diverse projects. CC organizes performances, concerts, exhibitions, symposiums, DJ sets, digital projects, and workshops including 3hd Festival (2015–present). As a queer-feminist normadic space, CC has cooperated with a variety of clubs, community spaces and institutions such as Berghain, Klosterruine, Wasserspeicher, OHM, Südblock, HAU Hebbel am Ufer, and Berlinische Galerie.