5 March 2018

Reality Forum is where reality TV meets its distant cousin—performance. Organized by Wojciech Kosma and June Berlin, it is a monthly screening and discussion group whose far-flung goal to reimagine the genre that has come to be known as "unscripted television." Beginning in March we invite anyone with an interest in reality TV—its fans, viewers, producers, theorists or critics—to watch and analyze reality TV shows. We will start from classics like KUWTK or EOTB and oddball or non-English series like Connected, The Prancing Elites Project, Terrace House or Sisters Over Flowers but eventually we hope to get into personal and idiosyncratic reworking of them—we will be offering stipends for the participants of the group to produce their own videos.

Following in the footsteps of the confessional TV shows—particularly the hyperrealistic celebrity documentaries such as Beyonce's Life Is But a Dream—we wish to question how are they shaping us and how can their influence be reclaimed for a personal benefit. We want to recognise reality TV as a form of performance—only more popular than the artistic kind—and turn it into a social occasion or a kind of microscale television "network" where the audience doubles as producers and critics, meeting always and only in the intimate and neighbourly space of June in Friedrichshain. Despite our obsession with reality TV, the Forum might be just the opposite of it—brief, fleeting and unspectacular; offline and unaired.

Everyone is welcome.