SCI FI SESSIONS #1
de Appel, Schipluidenlaan 12, Amsterdam
Om in het spoor van nakende politieke, economische of technologische inzinkingen na te denken over de toekomst, schuilt echter ook het provocatieve statement dat we niet hoeven te wachten tot deze dampscenario’s zich daadwerkelijk voltrekken - ze zijn immers reeds volop aan de gang.
Programma
Lunch programma 13:00-16:00 13:00 Gezamenlijke lunch 13:45 Keynote: literatuurwetenschapper Dr. Barnita Bagchi brengt feministische en potentieel revolutionaire Utopia’s (fictieve Utopia’s die inspelen op hedendaagse verlangens naar andere sociale werkelijkheden) in resonantie met de tentoonstelling van Kaszás.
14:15 Prompts: Curator Jacob Lillemose van X AND BEYOND, een expositieruimte toegewijd aan het presenteren en onderzoeken van hedendaagse ‘disaster culture’, introduceert de thema’s van de middagsessies, waarin de mogelijkheden voor de toekomst van instituting verder worden onderzocht in kleinere groepen. 14:45 Breakout-sessies met diverse uitgenodigde instellingen, belanghebbenden, en het publiek. 15:30 Gezamenlijke conclusie: “Post-collapse Instituting”
16:15 Koffiepauze
Middagprogramma 16:30 – 18:30 16:30 Walkthrough van de tentoonstelling SCI FI AGIT PROP met Tamás Kaszás en Niels Van Tomme 17:30 Lancering van een speciale kunstenaarseditie van Tamás Kaszás, gevolgd door een borrel.
Jacob Lillemose lives and works in Berlin and Copenhagen. In 2011 he received his PhD from the Institute of Arts and Cultural Studies at the University of Copenhagen with a dissertation entitled Art as Information Tool. Critical Engagements with Contemporary Software Cultures. Since the mid 1990s he has worked internationally as a freelance curator, lecturer, and writer. Working within the tradition and legacy of conceptual art he has curated a show with the films of Gordon Matta-Clark. His curatorial work in the field of media art includes exhibitions with Heath Bunting, UBERMORGEN.COM, Technologies to the People, and Cornelia Sollfrank. He has co-curated (w. Inke Arns) the travelling retrospective exhibition on the works of the web collective irational.org. His writings have appeared in a number of contexts, in including Le Monde Diplomatique, frieze, and kunstkritikk.no as well as catalogues on David Lamelas, William Anastasi, Daniel Garcia Andujar, Cornelia Sollfrank, and Jesper Just. He is a member of the Danish net art collective Artnode and has edited the anthology We Love Your Computer. An Anthology on Net Art (2008) that was published by Artnode and The Royal Art Academy Copenhagen.
Barnita Bagchi teaches and researches Comparative Literature at Utrecht University. With affiliations to the Netherlands, India, and Bengal, working between the languages English, Bengali, Dutch, and French, Barnita is a transnational academic whose work is informed by feminist activism. Educated at Jadavpur University, India, and the universities of Oxford and Cambridge, she has published widely on utopia, histories of transnational education, and women’s writing in comparative perspective in western Europe and south Asia. She directs the Utrecht Utopia Network (utrechtutopianetwork.nl), which, for example, recently hosted an international workshop in Utrecht on ‘Urban Utopias: Memory, Rights, and Speculation.’