In 2019 we invited artists to work together to make new and unplanned collaborative performances on this theme of adaptation. If persistence suggests survival, then adaptation is the mechanism by which we can deal with adversity, become resourceful, and make something new by responding to the conditions around us. How can we work together to generate rather than compete for resources? How can music be a speculative medium for sustainability at a time when we face now-inevitable shifts in the world's politics and climate? Can we imagine interactions with one another that propagate rather than consume?
This Hacklab edition was co-hosted by Andreas Siagian, Lintang Radittya and Peter Kirn, and housed at STATE Studio in Berlin. The finale performance took place at HAU2. Four public Hacklab Input talks rounded out the lab's activities: »Network ghosts: video feedback and algorithmic uncertainty« by Olivia Jack, »Indonesia’s Hack and DIY Culture« by Andreas Siagian and Lintang Radittya, »Cybernetification or a Sixth Ecology« by Liss C. Werner, and »"You say adaptation, I think lab.our"« by Špela Petrič.
| Alejandra Cardenas (aka Ale Hop) | Alina Hernández Maldonado |
| Bella | Bogumiła Piotrowska |
| Elghandiva A Tholkhah | Elias Pavlidis |
| Hasan Mashni | ildar Iakubov |
| Ioana Vreme Moser | Joseph Kamaru (KMRU) |
| Juan Olaya | Justyna Stasiowska |
| Maike Alisha Effenberg | Maja Bosnić |
| Mark Rambo J Macatangay, aka Rambo | Matt Gingold (aka Helen Back; aka Gameover) |
| Monica Vlad | Olivia Jack |
| Pascal Staudt | Rehab Hazgui |
| Sebastian Seifert | Tomy Herseta |
| Zeyu Cheng | Zosia Hołubowska |
Presented with CDM, Nusasonic, and the SHAPE platform, which is co-funded by the Creative Europe programme of the European Union. Funded by the Senate Department of Culture and Europe, and Initiative Musik.