FUTURISMS

“I think we need to have the freedom to create new ways of thinking about the world, new stories, new languages, new relationships.” Ursula K. Le Guin

What would it take to truly have the power to shape our future? How can we not only imagine but actively implement alternative social, economic and political realities in the austere conditions of late capitalism? Can art and speculation be mediating tools in the crisis of the political imaginary? Through the Futurisms series, we are building a feminist platform for creating our own imaginaries of the future.

The series brings together artists, researchers and practitioners who use performance and play to explore possible realities. In a lecture series in April and June, Rok Kranjc and Alicja Rogalska will explore guerrilla economic futurism, post-fossil rituals and business as a site of experimentation. In a performance piece in June, Olja Grubić, Tatiana Kocmur and Una Bauer will explore the fissures into alternative worlds, especially in the context of feminist and queer struggles.