Naked Future Whenever we talk about the future in Africa, it has always been about a gloomy, dystopian future of an Africa that in the year 2000 will collapse under the weight of this or that disease. The last futuristic prediction was that of Bill Gates’ wife, who predicted that with Covid-19, the African streets…
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Fabri Blacklock
Privileging Aboriginal Methodologies in Artistic Research Aboriginal Research Methodologies (ARM) have long been deemed by the Eurocentric academy to be inferior and unvalidated forms of research data collection methods. Aboriginal ways of being, knowing, and doing are the essence of cultural maintenance and survival. Artistic practice exemplifies connection to culture through Aboriginal ontologies and epistemologies.…
Frank Geßner
‹cinemareinventé› work in progress A SPHERICAL VIDEO ESSAY BY FRANK GESSNER “I’m not a filmmaker. For me, film is the extension of language. I begin with poetry, then visual art, and finally cinema which brings together several different elements of art. Which to say: writing (poetry), the object (visual arts), and the image (film). The…
Rosi Braidotti
THE CRITICAL POSTHUMANITIES This lecture explores the methodological implications of contemporary posthuman scholarship in the Humanities. It defines the posthuman as a convergence phenomenon unfolding at the intersection between post-humanism on the one hand and post-anthropocentrism on the other. The former criticizes the idea of ‘Man’ as the allegedly universal standard-bearer for the human, whereas…
Fee Altmann and Christine Reeh-Peters
Speech to the International Committee to Save the Earth through Speculative Fabulation With Fabulation for Future, we intend to inquire into the contemporary perception that the anthropocentric view of the world is destroying the multi-species habitat of the earth. Decimation of biodiversity through environmental poisoning, deforestation, extensive forest fires, plastic waste, famines, climate catastrophes, etc.…
Kika Nicolela
Keynote during the symposium: The world’s continual breathing is what we hear and call silence*orFEELING WITH THE OTHER My work generally expresses itself into a collection of human beings—often in a situation of social invisibility—inserted into a proposed situation and their resulted actions, reactions, words. Through the presentation of excerpts of a selection of my past…
Stefan Winter
How Will We Live Together? Artistic Research in the Design of City Spaces In the artistic avantgarde of post-war Paris, Ivan Chtcheglov introduced the ‘dérive’, drifting through the body of the city, as a procedure of artistic research to take note of the ‘atmospheres’ in the city and their changes and fluctuations. The Lettrists and…
Gusztáv Hámos and Katja Pratschke
Keynote during the symposium: POLIS, POLITICS, POLICE Gusztáv Hámos and Katja Pratschke’s artistic research project SAMPLE CITIES consists of 28 city descriptions. In a manner similar to Italo Calvino in his novel Invisible Cities (1972) they describe imaginary cities that have been documented with photographs in real urban areas. The source material is sequential photo…
Prudence Gibson
Keynote during the symposium: Tipping the Fictive Point. Fabulation is an eco-political act, a way to create new imaginative futures. Stories, films and artworks can mediate difficult social and environmental issues. There is something eerie and disturbing at the point where non-fiction and fiction collide. This point can tip our understandings into the past, the present…
Angelica Böhm
Transmedia Storytelling for Future Transmedia Storytelling: Camilla Plastic Ocean Plan (CPOP) was founded in 2015 at Film University Babelsberg. More than 400 students, alumni and professionals from different parts of the world have become involved. Angelica Boehm started the project because the worldwide media present often environmental problems in a way that makes us feel…