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Zbyněk Baladrán, Vít Bohal, Dustin Breitling + 1 more
Conceptualized by Zbyněk Baladrán, Vít Bohal, Dustin Breitling and Václav Janoščík, the conference brings together theorists, artists and organizers who collaborate and elaborate on their visions in order to discover junctures of overlap for thinking about the emancipatory potentials of the future.
Ponomarevová Daniela
In her project DELTA Plan, Daniela Ponomarevová constructs and subsequently deconstructs a post-apocalyptic story responding to the current state of civilization. At the heart of this dystopian narrative is the presumed demise of Earth, which has become nothing more than a testing ground, a temporary refuge for humanity, which is inevitably awaiting destruction by a giant asteroid. The author opens up this fictional future scenario through a series of objects installed in the immersive environment of a supposed laboratory and a text-and-image document.
A more-than-oceanic perspective is a speculation on perception, emotion, intelligence, and agency. It brings with it a tidal wave of decolonial thought, posthumanism and material feminisms, queer ecologies, media theory, and spirituality, refracting it through interdisciplinary aesthetics and environmental justice.
Paik Nam June, Ruth Wolf-Rehfeldt, Suzanne Treister + 15 more
We hope that by combining a number of various artworks and projects, hints of possibility will begin to emerge, from which a way out of today’s situation, that is oppressive on many levels, can slowly be carved. When it seems there is nowhere to run, we can try running into the future – and from there, start to reshape the present.
David Přílučík
David Přílučík takes the viewer to a situation of a generic TED Talk presentation full of techno-optimistic rhetorics, an endless potetial and right decisions. Peter Davis, a creative professional, a manager and a bureaucrat from Silicon Valley is a mere fictional figure from the no longer existent corporation Worldwide Motion Pictures Group, established by Přílučík to be able to relativise utopian commitments of similar companies.
Eva Maceková, Iva Davidová
Both authors work with fictional worlds (seemingly) untouched by humans, which serve as romanticized escapes from the chaotic reality of the present. Instead of the desired contemplation, the scenes of an untouched natural world evoke an almost disturbing feeling of permanence and death.
What can we do within the confines of the present? What are the discursive possibilities and conditions of accelerationism? What are the investments and aspirations for such a language and for such an endeavor?