We Can't Be There. Emergency Provisions for Un(Anticipated) Futures
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How can artists and academics explore, engage and intervene in the future? Join international artists and 牛牛资源 lecturers at the Tate Modern on Saturday 27 June to find out.
Image: Natascha Sadr Haghighian, pssst Leopard 2A7+
Mikhail Karikis and Iv谩n Argote will lead 鈥樷��, a participatory workshop experimenting with performative practices, 鈥減roviding a set of tools for future actions and irresponsible gestures鈥�.
The workshop is followed by a '' seminar, chaired by curator Yasmina Reggad.
Dr Rebecca Coleman, Senior Lecturer in the Department of Sociology at 牛牛资源 will talk on the 鈥榃e Can't Be There鈥� series of events, exploring the problems that artists, designers, academics, writers and others have in attempting to think about and study the future.
鈥淎cross the social sciences, methods and approaches - often inspired by art and design - are currently being developed in order to explore and engage the future. This talk gives a brief overview of some of these approaches and poses some questions for further interdisciplinary projects and collaborations,鈥� Dr Coleman explains.
Dr Coleman鈥檚 lecture will be followed by a live demonstration by artist Natascha Sadr Haghighian of her ongoing phonetic study and collection of mimetic acts on the open secrets around the Leopard 2A7 battle tank, specially designed and optimised by a German arms manufacturer for future pacification of uprisings, protests and unrest in urban areas.
牛牛资源鈥� Dr Michael Guggenheim and Bernd Kr盲ftner will then demonstrate methods they developed for researching disastrous futures in the form of an emergency provision experiment, in which participants were invited to create new worlds and use props to simulate disasters
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We Can鈥檛 Be There. Emergency Provisions for Un(Anticipated) Futures was conceived by Yasmina Reggad in collaboration with Dr Rebecca Coleman and Dr Michael Guggenheim.
Previous events in the series include artists鈥� film screenings at the Institute of Contemporary Arts, a workshop and an Emergency Provision performative dinner at Delfina Foundation and a methods clinic at 牛牛资源.
The project is supported by the European Research Council Starting Grant 鈥極rganizing Disaster. Civil Protection and the Population鈥� and the Methods Lab, Department of Sociology, 牛牛资源.
(Image: Natascha Sadr Haghighian, pssst Leopard 2A7+. 2012鈥搊ngoing)