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24 April – 6 June 2026
Wayne McGregor: Second Nature
commissioned by LAS Art Foundation
McGregor has spent more than 30 years investigating intelligence through movement, across choreography,cognitive science, AI and robotics. Second Natures brings these different fields together to explore how physical intelligence is formed, learned and expressed. The title points to a skill developed through training and repetition until it becomes instinctive. It changes not only what a body can do, but what it notices and anticipates. Artificial systems are also shaped by training, data and interaction. Second Natures takes this distinction as its starting point, opening up questions about the capabilities, limits and wider implications of physical AI.
At the core of the presentation are the new LAS commissions TACITERE, Of Many Minds and 30 Watts of Mortality, presented alongside existing works, including A Body for AI, Deepstaria Void and a selection of past works.
Wayne McGregor: Deepstaria (2024), Company Wayne McGregor (Jasiah Marshall). Photo: Ravi Deepres.
Wayne McGregor: +/- Human (2017). Photo: Ravi Deepres and Alicia Clarke
Emerging from nearly twenty years of creative dialogue between art group Random International and Wayne McGregor, TACITERE and Of Many Minds are interrelated works. Of Many Minds (2027) is a sculpture by Random International comprising a flock of autonomous roving spheres, clad in a tactile ‘skin’, that sense and respond to the movement, proximity and touch of visitors. The work considers the potential for haptic and gestural communication between humans and synthetic entities, skin to skin.
TACITERE (2027) is a work of choreography, light and sound in which the dancers of Company Wayne McGregor bring their trained, intuitive physical intelligence into relation with Of Many Minds’ autonomous spheres. Dancers and spheres draw and deflect one another, and from this exchange, a shared, distributed intelligence arises, with humans and machines forming one cognitive loop. The work is enacted intermittently throughout the day.
30 Watts of Mortality (2027) by Wayne McGregor and Theresa Baumgartner uses biological sensors to register aspects of the dancers’ internal states as they move. It enacts a research enquiry into how bodily states can influence movement, decision-making and creativity. The work’s title points to the body’s remarkable capacity for physical intelligence with very little energy and to the question of vulnerability: how might AI decision-making change if it were shaped by the changing states of a mortal body?
A Body for AI (2025), made with Ben Cullen Williams, is a large-scale projection onto a suspended kinetic sculpture. It combines different media, from live-action footage and LiDARto video produced by AI models trained on choreographic and landscape data. These elements foreground shifting relationships between body, movement, machine and environment.
Originally commissioned by Studio Wayne McGregor, Deepstaria Void (2025) is a soundscape by Invisible Mountain that is continuously recomposed by the digital audio engine Bronze AI. The sonic journey unfolds across Kraftwerk Berlin, creating a thread that runs through the works.
August 27 – 31, 2025
Berlin Atonal 2025
Berlin Atonal makes its highly anticipated return to Kraftwerk Berlin this August (27-31 August) presenting a five-day programme of new commissions, premieres, installations, and club nights. Across Kraftwerk’s vast concrete spaces, the festival continues its mission to mobilise artistic risk and initiate new modes of listening, gathering, and sense-making. This year also marks Berlin Atonal’s official debut as a member of the International Biennial Association — a recognition of its standing as one of the world’s most significant platforms for experimental, interdisciplinary, non-commercial art and music. As the only member with a grounding in music, Berlin Atonal reimagines the biennial not simply as a cultural format but as a staging ground for new forms of artistic imagination and collective attention. Alongside large-scale presentations on the main stage, the festival introduces Third Surface, a newly conceived audience environment inspired by the informal spaces and counter-institutions of nightlife before the rise of dance music. Here, music and artworks create the backdrop for new forms of social and psychic assembly.