What happened 2081?
dal 23/3/2012 al 24/3/2012
Segnalato da
23/3/2012
What happened 2081?
KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin
A congress to find out: We go into the future to see clearer, to see the ruins of our present, the ruins of a future
A kick-off event into a future that is long past by Georg Diez and Christopher Roth. A congress to find out: We go into the future to see clearer, to see the ruins of our present, the ruins of a future. We call it retro-futuristic. "Our view is on the future through the future. We have looked at the years 1980/81 in our recent research - from the distance of 30 years we have pieced together the present. Now we want to look at the next 70 years. What happened? With the use of fiction we describe the future in a narrative way. We are interested in what Umberto Eco called the 'etc. function', we look for the elastic possibilities of reality. This congress combines artistic and scientific positions. Learning plus fun. A laboratory of the transient." In March in Berlin, in May in Johannesburg, in September in New Delhi, in November in Sao Paulo. (Moscow and Beijing to follow next year, and Rome) In Tel Aviv we will build an archive of the future. March 24, 10.30 am talk: Sarah Nuttall, sociologist; Melanie Forgeron, mezzo-soprano and Katharina Sellheim, pianist; Victoria Nelson, theorist; Vera Lehndorff, performance artist; Annie Gosfield, composer; Filipa Cesar, artist; Joana Barrios, actress; Ayzit Bostan, artist and fashion designer; Sandra Bartoli, landscape architect; Aino Laberenz, costume designer and opera director; Barbara Kirchner, theoretical chemist; Anne Tismer, performance artist; Julia Hummer, singer and actress; Hildur Guonadottir, cellist and composer; Avery F. Gordon, sociologist with Celine Condorelli, artist; Lavinia Wilson, actress; Anna-Catharina Gebbers, writer, exhibition maker, and lecturer. Amitesh Grover will organize a live performance from Old Delhi. Opovoempe' will be live with us from Sao Paulo. At night Sam Chermayeff will present an archive. March 25 at 11 am walk from KW Institute for Contemporary Art to the Olympic Stadium - location of the 2084 Olympics with: the writers Iain Sinclair and Chris Petit, the producer Bob Last, the architects Arno Brandlhuber, and Tobias Honig.