With Glitch: Ontological Exhaustions & System Failures, Spazju Kreattiv in Valletta, Malta becomes an amplifier for reflections on digitality & resistance, history & remembrance: aesthetic “disruptions” (glitches) challenge the audience to reflect on their technology-dependent society. Glitch Art—a powerful tool to deconstruct the technocratic, dictatorial, and repressive dimensions of neoliberal, communist, or capitalist systems—pushes us to the boundaries of our world, governed by surveillance, algorithmic dependence, and systemic exhaustion.

How old is the glitch? It has always existed. The Tractatus de Penitentia (1285) by Johannes Galensis introduces a subversive demon named Titivillus, the “patron demon of scribes,” who collected omitted, mumbled, and mispronounced words—especially those clerics who were said to have “stolen from God” during their morning prayers—which he preserved for their indictment at the end of days.

Artists: Ruth Bianco, Joana Moll, Katrin Leitner, Nadja Verena Marcin, Michael Betancourt, Ian Keaveny, and Niklas Washausen. Curator: Verena Voigt

Satellite event 1:
Reading and discussion with Ines Geipel & Verena Voigt
The German Double Helix of Memory
March 19, 2025 7 p.m.

Satellite event 2:
Daria’s Vision: Resistance, Spatial Dissolution, and Slowness
With Ruth Bianco & Verena Voigt
May 4, 2025 11 a.m.