OPERATIONAL CHOREOGRAPHY
project with Otto Ostermann, Harun Curak
special thanks to Tobechukwu Onwukeme (Forensic Architecure)
Shown at Ars Electronica 2025 PANIC - yes/no , “Bring the Chaos” (Linz, AT), UdK Rundgang 2025, UdK AI Day 2025 (Berlin, DE)Year: 2025
Format: 3-Channel Video, CGI, mixed media
Duration: 4,27 and 1,39
Police and military forces from a variety of socio-geographical contexts meet in shared environments to exchange enforcement strategies. These kinds of collaborations often remain unacknowledged, and the exact contents circulated there are difficult to pinpoint.
In lockstep with rapid police militarization in Germany and abroad, such efforts contribute to the global refinement of a shared methodology of violent suppression. By finding patterns in footage of various known collaborator police forces, Operational Choreography seeks to interrogate police movements as the primary field on which these shared tactics are deployed and betrayed.
Through re-enacting, 3D modeling, and analyzing these movements with various CGI workflows and machine learning algorithms, the video installation gestures towards building an evidence-based taxonomy of shared police tactics.
→ Featuring excerpts of Lepecki André, Choreopolice and choreopolitics
Credits:
Research: Natalya Bashnyak, Otto Ostermann, Harun Curak
Animation: Natalya Bashnyak, Otto Ostermann, Harun Curak
Sound: open-source
Produced with the support of Tobechukwu Onwukeme (Forensic Architecure), MA New Practice (UdK / TU)