Let’s Play Majerus G3 LIVE – Artistic Practices in the Digital Age // Live Performance by Cory Arcangel & Conversation with Nadim Samman

'Let's Play Majerus G3' LIVE - Artistic Practices in the Digital Age
Live Performance by Cory Arcangel & Conversation with Nadim Samman

Saturday, May 3, 2025
12 pm
Michel Majerus Estate
Knaackstrasse 12
10405 Berlin

The Michel Majerus Estate is excited to present a live performance by Cory Arcangel, followed by a conversation between Arcangel and curator Nadim Samman. This event summarizes and culminates the artist's seminal project, Let's Play Majerus G3. Here, Arcangel activates Michel Majerus' laptop, offering a real-time look into the emulation technology behind the project, and unique insights into Majerus' digital studio.

Arcangel and Samman will then discuss the project and the presence of the Digital in contemporary art practices since the 2000s. Following the release of the fifth and final video in Arcangel's YouTube series, this exclusive performance and conversation completes the project Let's Play Majerus G3, alongside the complementary exhibition at the Michel Majerus Estate in Berlin. Attendees will have the special opportunity to experience this project directly, and to come into conversation with Arcangel and Samman during a Q&A afterward.

The event will be held in English.
No registration required. Please note that seating is limited.
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'Let's Play Majerus G3'

This event is part of the current exhibition Let's Play Majerus G3 at the Michel Majerus Estate (Knaackstr. 12,10405 Berlin), which places works by Michel Majerus and Cory Arcangel in dialog. At the center of the exhibition is a still unexplored part of Michel Majerus' estate: a Macintosh PowerBook G3 that Majerus used until 2002. On the initiative of the artist Cory Arcangel and in collaboration with Rhizome, a platform for digital art and culture, this laptop has been reactivated through emulation. In the format of "Let's Play" videos on YouTube, which can be viewed both online and in the exhibition, Arcangel provides an insight into the computer and unfamiliar aspects of Majerus' creative process. The project provides access to Majerus' digital studio for the first time - from the perspective of a fellow artist. Let's Play Majerus G3 was conceived in collaboration with Rhizome. The emulation of Majerus' computer, developed by OpenSLX, was supervised by Dragan Espenschied (Preservation Director at Rhizome) and Mona Ulrich. The Office for Contemporary Art Norway (OCA), the Institute for Contemporary Art Research (IfCAR) at Zurich University of the Arts, and Arcangel Surfware, a software and merchandise publisher founded by the artist in 2014, are supporting the project.

Cory Arcangel is an artist and composer living and working in Stavanger, Norway. His work has been exhibited widely and was the subject of solo exhibitions at Kunstverein in Hamburg (2022); Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (2011); Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh (2012); The Barbican, London (2011); Reykjavík Art Museum (2015); Hamburger Bahnhof - Museum für Gegenwart, Berlin (2010); Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami (2010), and Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zurich (2005). Current exhibitions and projects include Let's Play Majerus G3, Michel Majerus Estate, Berlin (2024); The Living End: Painting and Other Technologies, 1970-2020, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago (2024); All I Eat in a Day, Kunst Halle St. Gallen (2024); From Matters, Matters Forms: From Readymade to Product Fetish, Kunst Museum Winterthur (2024), ART on THE MART, Chicago (2024), and Worldbuilding: Gaming and Art in the Digital Age at Julia Stoschek Collection, Dusseldorf (2022) and Centre Pompidou Metz (2023).

Nadim Julien Samman read Philosophy at University College London before receiving his PhD from the Courtauld Institute of Art. He was Co-Director of Import Projects e.V. in Berlin from 2012 to 2019 and, concurrently, Curator at Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary, Vienna (2013-2015). He curated the 4th Marrakech Biennale (with Carson Chan) in 2012, and the 5th Moscow Biennale for Young Art in 2016. He co-founded and co-curated the 1st Antarctic Biennale (2017) and the Antarctic Pavilion (Venice, 2015-2017). Widely published, in 2019 he was First Prize recipient of the International Award for Art Criticism (IAAC). His recent book Poetics of Encryption: Art and the Technocene is published by Hatje Cantz (Berlin, 2023) and Luiss University Press (Rome, 2025). Nadim is currently Director of Autotelic Foundation (London) and Curator-at-large, Langen Foundation (Dusseldorf). In 2025 he curates the Vienna Digital Cultures festival.

Michel Majerus Estate
Housed in the artist's former studio, the Michel Majerus Estate is dedicated to researching, presenting and contextualizing the work of Michel Majerus (1967-2002), and preserving the cultural legacy of an extensive oeuvre created during a short period that began in the late 1980s. Since 2012, the Michel Majerus Estate has invited guest curators, scholars and artists to engage with Majerus' practice through exhibitions and projects staged at the Estate. Previous collaborators include Brigitte Franzen, Fabian Schöneich, Joseph Kosuth,
Laura Owens and Jordan Wolfson.
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Further information and press images for the upcoming event, as well as the concurrent exhibition at the Michel Majerus Estate, contact press@michelmajerus.com or +49 30 47377300, where we are glad to assist you.