2022
PhD candidate at University of Westminster
I am currently a TECHNE funded PhD candidate and researcher at The University of Westminster
2021
A.S.T. has a new website designed by Patricia Reed!
Find a link here.
A.S.T. digital commission at the ICA Miami
Find a link to the new work here.
2038: The New Serenity, German pavilion at the 2021 architecture biennale in venice
I have been part of the team working on the German Pavilion for the 2021 Venice Architecture Biennale opening on the 21st of May.
I have been making short clips and running the instagram page for the last 16 months (#germanpavilionvenice) and I will be screening a new video as part of the exhibition. Due to the pandemic the team has built a virtual experience of the pavilion online, a link to which can be found at https://2038.xyz/ from Friday the 21st of May.
The official press announcement is below:
Today, in the year 2038, we have mastered the great crises. It was close, but we made it. The global economic and ecological disasters of the 2020s brought people, states, institutions and companies together. They committed themselves to fundamental rights and jointly created self-sustaining systems on a universal basis, giving decentralized local structures the space to maintain their individual way of living.
Technologies and big data helped us to turn new and old ideas into reality. And often architects were part of the solution because they had answers instead of coming up with more questions. Drama is now history. We live in a radical democracy, in a radical bureaucracy. On a planet that doesn't know or need heroes or villains.
2038 is an international team of architects, artists, ecologists, economists, scientists, politicians and writers, initiated in 2019, with the goal of reveling a (hi)story that today we call future.
With Blaise Agüera y Arcas, Diana Alvarez-Marin, Andrés Arauz, Arts of the Working Class, Mara Balestrini, Sandra Bartoli, Diann Bauer, Jan Bauer, BBSR, Tatiana Bilbao, BMI, Oana Bogdan, Mohamed Bourouissa, Arno Brandlhuber, Jakob Brandtberg Knudsen & Lorenz von Seidlein, Francesca Bria, James Bridle, Vera Bühlmann, Bureau N, Benjamin Burq, Vint Cerf, cfk architetti, Elke Doppelbauer, Tobia de Eccher, Keller Easterling, Eidotech, Kurt Eggenschwiler, Ludwig Engel, ExRotaprint, Cosimo Flohr, Lenny Flohr, Michaela Friedberg, Yona Friedman, Renée Gailhoustet, Jan-Peter Gieseking, Goethe Institut, Olaf Grawert, Dorothee Hahn, Nils Havelka, Helene Hegemann, Holger Heissmeyer, Nikolaus Hirsch, Fabrizio Hochschild Drummond, Ludger Hovestadt, Pan Hu, JUNG, Sonja Junkers, Roberta Jurcic, Claudia Kessler, Sénamé Koffi Agbodjinou, Lukas Kubina, Nikolaus Kuhnert, Christopher Kulendran Thomas & Annika Kuhlmann, Phyllis Lambert, Lawrence Lessig, Ferdinand Ludwig & Daniel Schoenle, Suhail Malik, Charlotte Malterre-Barthes, Hilary Mason, James Meadway, Omoju Miller, Evgeny Morozov, Motif, Motor Productions, Caroline Nevejan, Bahar Noorizadeh, Sabine Oberhuber, Jorge Orozco, Poligonal, Leif Randt, Thomas Rau, RAUE Rechtsanwälte und Rechtsanwältinnen, Rebiennale, Denis 'Jaromil' Roio, Raquel Rolnik, Meghan Rolvien, Christopher Roth, Juliana Rotich, Saygel, Schreiber & Gioberti, Jan Schmidt-Garre, Patrik Schumacher, Max Senges, Deane Simpson, Sol Marino, Bruce Sterling, Michael Stöppler, Lia Strenge, Audrey Tang, TECE, The Laboratory of Manuel Bürger, Jeanne Tremsal, Galaad Van Daele, Iris van der Tuin, VITRA International, Georg Vrachliotis, Julian Wäckerlin, Eyal Weizman, Julia Werlen, Why Ventures, Mark Wigley, Erez Yoeli, Tirdad Zolghadr and many others.
AIRIE(artist in residence in the everglades)
with AST
With AST I will be a research fellow until the end of 2021 at AIRIE in Florida. Travel restrictions permitting we will be in residence in person for October 2021. We have done an introductory conversation called AIRIE asks which can be seen here:
Art in PUblic Places-miami with AST
Also with AST, we are working on a large public artwork for a new housing project in Miami due to open in late 2021,
2020
2020 has been quite a year, never-the-less it has been a busy time given all the restrictions we all have faced. Below are some of the things I’ve been involved with over the last 10 months.
Oktoberdans 2020
A contemporary dance biennale in Bergen, Norway,
Helen Hester and I each delivered lectures and did a joint Q and A. The video of the lectures are edited and adapted by Diann Bauer and we are each wearing masks by Anna Engelhardt and Medina Bazargali. You can find the video of the lectures above.
Who Wants to Live Forever?
I was part of this exhibition as part of The Deep Field Project, a research collective based at Westminster University in London
17 September–15 November 2020
Participating artists:
Oreet Ashery, Solveig Bergene, Gideonsson/Londré, Jessica Harvey, Moa Israelsson, Britta Marakatt-Labba, Mercedes Mühleisen, Adrian Piper, Tabita Rezaire, The Deep Field Project (Diann Bauer, Jol Thoms, Neal White), and Anton Vidokle
Current cryonic approaches of freezing bodies, research into the Turritopsis dohrnii immortal jellyfish species, and the “download” of consciousness—these speculative developments raise important ethical questions. Who can attain immortality and who is excluded? How does our relation to the planet and other humans and nonhumans change if there is an immortal elite? If we live forever, might we become more caring towards our surroundings in our current time of ecological and social emergency, or more neglectful? This international group exhibition at Kunsthall Trondheim discusses both playfully and earnestly some of the most pressing ontological, epistemological, ethical, and political implications of the dawning (im)possibility of immortality.
To Dream Effectively
13 September 2020 to 17 January 2021
Artists: Larry Achiampong, Sophia Al-Maria, A.S.T. (Alliance of the Southern Triangle), Diann Bauer, Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley, Caspar Heinemann, Leyla Pillai, Tabita Rezaire, Himali Singh Soin, Emilija Škarnulytė, Rosie Grace Ward
‘To Dream Effectively’ is a group exhibition across Focal Point Gallery, Big Screen Southend and Southend High Street that brings together international artists whose work offers cautionary reflections on a future that can still be influenced by how we dream it to be. It takes inspiration from the ground-breaking novels of science-fiction writer Ursula K Le. Guin (1929 to 2018), in particular The Lathe of Heaven, 1971, which was strongly influenced by the principles of Taoism (an ancient philosophical and religious belief of Chinese origin that emphasises living in harmony with ‘the Way’).
Team 2038
I will be working with Christopher Roth and the extended team working on a project called 2038:The New Serenity (https://2038.xyz/) for the German Pavilion at the 2021 Venice Architecture Biennale. My primary roll will be making work for and running the instagram account as an art work. This will include many images and videos, some from the team, some original to the feed. The launch is February 13th in Berlin and the Biennale opens (a year later than intended) in Venice in May 2021. The instagram account name is germanpavilionvenice so follow me there. I am thinking of it as a long durational video work (20 months) for those with a short attention span.
SciApp-delayed to 2021 due to Covid19
I will be presenting a paper at the SciApp Conference (Science Art and the Possibilities for Perception) at the University of Arizona in March. It is a meeting of scientists and artists and I will be presenting and discussing my work on the ontology of time.
Quantum: In Search of the Invisible at iMAL, Brussels
This is an exhibition of work I did as part of the Arts at CERN residency last year. It is a two screen video work with sound by Seth Ayyaz. This from the iMAL website:
This collective exhibition presents ten commissioned artworks by internationally renowned artists, which rethink scientific research and facts to explore states of being and the very possibilities of reality. These works question how much we really know about the world around us, and how we may begin to discover new aspects by taking a different perspective. Vividly inspired by the minds of the scientists they met, each artist created their own piece, which reinterprets contemporary science in its own way.
In recent years, CERN in Geneva—the world’s largest laboratory of fundamental scientific research—has fostered new models of collaboration between arts and science. Within its Arts at CERN programme, artists are invited to spend time working alongside particle physicists and engineers. During these encounters, creative collisions occur, enriching and diversifying scientific thinking, whilst simultaneously providing endless resources for artistic practice. This exhibition brings together a selection of the works developed during the last three years of this programme.
Other artists involved include: Julieta Aranda, James Bridle, Juan Cortés, HRM199, Yunchul Kim, Lea Porsager, Suzanne Treister, Semiconductor, Yu-Chen Wang
This exhibition was curated by Mónica Bello (Arts at CERN) and José-Carlos Mariátegui.
2018
Broken Symmetries, Group Exhibition with Arts at CERN, beginning at FACT in Liverpool in November ’18, CCCB in Barcelona, April ’19, subsequently on to Le Lieu Unique (Nantes), iMAL (Brussels) and CERN (Geneva)
2017
Post-cyberfeminist international
ICA London- screening of Update-Updating-Updated a collaborative work by LC and panel discussion as part of a 4 day event celebrating 20years since the first Cyber Feminist international. link here
FUTURE CITIES: MIAMI
A.S.T. Research Intensive
participants include:
Bruce Mowry (City Engineer, Miami Beach)
Jayantha Obeyskera (Chief Climate Modeler, SFWMD)
Kim Stanley Robinson (Writer, via skype)
Philip Stoddard (Mayor, South Miami)
Natalia Zuluaga (Curator, Writer)
This Research Intensive gathers artists, writers, scientists, and experts in the fields of infrastructure, climate modeling, speculative fiction, policy making, and cultural agency in order to imagine the future of the region and coastal cities beyond mere adaptation.
AST makes a call for an interdisciplinary rethinking of city structures amidst the face of globalized hyper-economy impacted by climate change. How can a repurposing of current state-infrastructures such as zoning, speculative real estate, and water management be used to project into the future in order to create an alternative vision of our present. The primary focus of this event is to use the purported freedom of art to generate a platform in which thinking can be turned towards a systemic reorganization/orientation of coastal cities generally, and Miami, in particular.
ALIEN INTROSPECTION
Xenofeminism, Robotics and Machinic Promiscuity
Vermögen-Episode 2
We create machines which simultaneously create us. This episode explores the human-machinic connection and the feedback loops of various influences they produce, because our self-image as human is constantly being remodeled. The episode highlights normative principals which we inscribe into technological systems - like certain kinds of ignorance/knowledge, social labyrinths and biases, as well as specific characteristics of human and machinic perception. By learning from machinic behavior, which we create ourselves, we can change actively. If a feature is considered human or technological can alternately be at disposal. Thereby the potential of blending human and humanoid features is outlined in order to remodel the human constitution and self-image is outlined. Are we the somnambulists of those potentials? Why do we individualize our indivisible bodies into ever new divided and assembled technical configurations? How would a human-humaniod conspiracy work to show what the human body is capable of nowadays? Networks machines are, by necessity, promiscuous creatures - what would it mean for humans to be alien and embrace a similar self-awareness as a challenge to ingrained (normative) individualism? (above text from http://thefutureofdemonstration.net/e02/index.html)
Xenofeminsim-Alienation
lecture with Patricia Reed at Tranzitdisplay, Prague
Longing for Labor II
On the optimization of (wo)man
panel discussion at MAK – Österreichisches Museum für angewandte Kunst as part of VIENNA BIENNALE 2017: Robots. Work. Our Future.
“The imagination is a unique mental faculty that fuses rational and emotional faculties,” writes philosopher Ágnes Heller (Hannah Arendt Professor of Philosophy at the New School for Social Research in New York) at the opening of her essay From Utopia to Dystopia (2016). And adds: “Neither thought nor action occurs without some kind of emotion.”
The application of brain implants to improve performance, the “upload” of knowledge and memory or the fusion of the human mind with artificial intelligence is not common practice just yet. How does the idea of “optimization” affect human consciousness and our mental and physical health? What are the consequences of self-optimization? Will “we ourselves” become redundant? Wherein lays the human capacity for agency in the worldwide network of smart technologies and algorithms? Which particular role do women have in this regard? (above text from http://www.mak.at/en/longing_for_labor_ii_bron_the_optimization_of_woman_2017-07-11)
Northumbria / Sunderland AHRC CDT Student Conference 2017
Lecture on Xenofeminism, The Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead.
Alien Freedom
paper given as part of Constructing Cultures of Collective Freedom at London Conference in Critical Thought
UAL Futures
Designing a Feminist Internet
workshop with UAL students and lecture with ELIZA ANYANGWE, Founder and CEO at The Nzinga Effect(http://www.thenzingaeffect.com), chaired by CHARLOTTE WEBB
Social media demands intensive processes of self-representation and self-exploitation, and relentlessly commodifies women’s bodies and opinions. It also offers opportunities for women to develop their own voices and enact their (political) agency. How should we respond to these demands and possibilities within a feminist framework? What do women look like on the internet – how are they self-styled and represented by others? Who is invested in female identity being constructed in a certain way - corporations? employers? universities? governments? Is that what we want? (above text from http://ualfutures.studio/#media/events/post=designing-a-feminist-internet-visibility-and-representation
Key Note Lecture at WIDE
(women in the digital economy) as part of Viva tech- Paris
Rethinking Interaction in the Post-Digital
Presentation and discussion as part of a roundtable discussion, Mayday Rooms
Transmediale-2017- Berlin
On Subversion and Beyond: Reconsidering the politics of resistance and interference
Words like subversion and disruption are becoming increasingly difficult to interpret. Exploits once connected to artistic practice, network research, and hacktivism have been integrated into economic models, while the rise of digital populism fortifies a culture of echo chambers and divisive futures. Is it possible to interrupt the subversive dynamic of today’s market and political elite, which seems as ubiquitous as the technologies it depends upon? Can the increased complexity of today’s structures be opposed on non-reactionary terms? Sharing key examples, the panel discusses and re-imagines possibilities for intervening in current economic and political structures.
Alien Subjects- workshop with Patricia Reed also of Laboria Cuboniks
This workshop extrapolated from the affirmation of alienation as announced in the Xenofeminist manifesto. We led discussions elaborating the term, focusing on what exactly is meant by ‘alienation’ and its usefulness in thinking the political in relation to our complex reality. How can it be a generative (rather than debilitating) state? How may the notion of an ‘Alien Subject(ivity)’ help mould our self-understanding as we orient ourselves towards a post-anthropocentric world? The first hour of the workshop is dedicated to presentations, followed by two-hours of collective discussion of selected readings.
Future Proofing-Art-bBC radio 4
From the BBC website-'Both cultural change and massively increased accessibility to the tools with which to create will have a huge impact on the nature of art itself. Presenters Timandra Harkness and Leo Johnson explore the impact that technological change will have on art, and speak to artists at the forefront of the digital revolution.'
Question of Will
The Open Society Foundation, Bratislava.
Question of Will examines will and wide territory of related problems through art, philosophy, political science, psychology and psychiatry, neuroscience, computation sciences and human rights. This is the second edition in the seise. It will address these issues in lectures by transcontinental xenofeminist collective Laboria Cuboniks and Slovak artist Anna Daučíková. Seriese curated by Boris Ondreicka.
2016
Aesthetic Activism
Symposium at Yale University, School of Architecture.
This symposium, convened by Mark Foster Gage, explores emerging positions that cast aesthetics as the primary discourse for social, ecological, and political engagement. In contrast to commonly held opinions that these issues are antithetical to the aesthetic, recent work in aesthetic theory across multiple disciplines suggests that such political and ontological problems may be best addressed as aspects of aesthetic experience. An interdisciplinary group of philosophers, scholars, media theorists, artists, curators, and architects will speculate on how a reignited discourse on aesthetics is prompting new insights into our relationships with not only objects, spaces, environments, and ecologies, but also with each other and political structures in which we are all enmeshed. Philosophical viewpoints foregrounding aesthetics, including Accelerationism, Afro-Futurism, Dark Ecology, Extro-Science Fiction, Disobedient Objects, Immaterialism, Object-Oriented Ontology, and Xenofeminism, will be explored and discussed through a series of lectures, presentations of work, and interdisciplinary roundtable discussions.
Seeing Listening Writing Moving
Workshop and lecture at Ashkal Alwan's Home Workspace Program 2016-2017, Beirut.
The seminar looked at the ways artists can use their field’s purported intellectual promiscuity to leverage what art can be and do. Could it function otherwise and for what ends? Bauer will lead a discussion asking how a practice can use visual language as a means to develop thought, as well as use collaborative and systemic practices to shift the parameters of how and where art functions. Can we as artists use our skills of speculation and the anti-dogmatic claims of our field, to leverage knowledge produced by other fields, as a means to understand better what art now ought to be?
The structure of the workshop was divided into two parts. In the first part I spoke about my own practice and how it functions both visually and discursively. I focused on recent collaborative work done through Xenofeminism, as well as work done as part of a Miami-based collaborative project called AST (Alliance of the Southern Triangle) that develops interdisciplinary projects to address global climate change, cities, real-estate development, taxation, insurance schemes, terraforming, statecraft and art.
In the second half of the workshop, we looked at an excerpt from Benjamin Bratton’s book The Stack to through how his proposals might be useful for art practitioners. What can art do when its main referent is a systemic condition rather than the individual subject?
Public Talk | Xenofeminsim in Alien Time
In this paper, I spoke about Xenofeminism (XF): A Politics for Alienation, a text collaboratively written by Laboria Cuboniks in 2015. I highlighted XF’s endorsement of alienation, and how it can be helpful in thinking about what time is.
I also introduced the idea of Xenotemporality (XT), which proposes that the human experience of time is not sufficient for how we organize, inflect and orient the systems on which we now depend. Realities of how time functions beyond human experience have a direct impact on us and our daily lives via our technology (GPS satellites, for example). The development of XT and a commitment to thinking ‘time’ outside of our experience (a further decentering of the human), will help frame how we are to think about what the human is and how best to orient our expedited evolution.
Arts and Machine Learning Summit
Google Cultural Institute, Paris.
Co-contributors include Rem Koolhaus, Hans Ulrich-Obrist, Rachel Rose and Blaise Aguera y Arcas. In November 2016: On 3 & 4 November, 75 artists, scientists, engineers, researchers and writers came together at the Lab in Paris for the Arts and Machine Learning summit, in partnership with Google Cultural Institute and Google's AMI program. Together we explored the applications and implications of Machine Learning within a cultural context. The aim was to start a conversation with the cultural sector and encourage the sharing of ideas, exploring together what smart computer systems can do in the hands of artists, curators and how they can help people connect with culture in new ways. A huge amount of information was shared across the two days and new connections were made across geographic boundaries and different disciplines. Delegates commented they left inspired and stimulated with new questions, ideas and contacts.
In Dialogue with Robotics
Dutch Art Institute, Arnhem.
workshop with Bassam el Baroni.
The Horrizons of Horror
Worpswede Kunstlerhäuse Germany.
Symposium & workshop program with Anselm Franke, Bracha L. Ettinger, Melanie Bonajo, Laboria Cubonics (Diann Bauer, Helen Hester), Anja Kirschner, Sam Basu und Anke Hennig Increasingly we are organised around global emergencies that reach into every facet of life, disseminating an underlying apprehension of horror. These urgencies, mediated through spectacular polarizations, limit our comprehension of and capacity for being in the world. Given the recent resurgence of discourses on ‘horror’ what is mostly imagined with and against it tends towards an acceleration of the crisis-vortex and a staring into the abyss of a radically indifferent world. But can ‘horror’ become a lever for emancipation?
Accelerating Imagination
workshop with the Arthur C. Clark Centre for Human Imagination with UC San Diego and University of Liverpool, London
A Government of Times
Symposium/performance curated by le peuple qui manque at Halle 14, Leipzig.
http://www.halle14.org/veranstaltungen.html#c5344
Other participants include: François Cusset (philosopher, Paris), François Hartog (historian, Paris), Maurizio Lazzarato (philosopher, Paris), Émilie Notéris (writer, Paris), Benjamin Noys (writer, London), Lionel Ruffel (literary theoretician, Berlin), Camille de Toledo (writer & artist, Berlin), Tiphaine Samoyault (writer & literary theoretician, Paris)
Finnissage Lectures for Nervous System
as part of Laboria Cuboniks at Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin.
with Franco Berardi, Evgeny Morozov, Ana Teixeira Pinto and Seb Franklin
Maerzmusik
Berliner Festspiele 2016-Thinking Together
Independent presentations:
You Promised me Primer and you Gave me Gossip Girl, Lecture
and screening of Hyperstition and conversation with director Christopher Roth
With Laboria Cuboniks
Xenofeinsit Temporalities- panel and two day workshop with Laboria Cuboniks as part of Laboria Cuboniks.
2015
Futures and Fictions
Visual Cultures Public Program Fall 2015
presenting Xenofeminism as part of Laboria Cuboniks
Titles for Hyperstition
A film by Christopher Roth in collaboration with Armen Avenassian
Test Screening September 19, Babylon Kino, Berlin
Screening of:
This Will Happen in Time
a collaborative video performance with Christoph Cox for the launch of Realismus | Materialismus | Kunst at Spike-Berlin, September 14, 2015
The Long Progress Bar
Brighton Digital Festival, Lighthouse, Brighton, UK
Presented Xenofeminism as part of Laboria Cubonics
Mixing talks, screenings, workshops and live music performances, the festival unites international creatives, thinkers and radical change-makers shaping our world through contemporary art, music, design, technology, economics and social innovation.
LINE-UP
Award-winning journalist, broadcaster and author Paul Mason (UK) / Basic income advocate Guy Standing (UK) / critically acclaimed electronic music producer Jam City (UK) / rising electronic musician Holly Herndon (US) / social innovator and unMonastery member Kei Kreutler (US) / artist and writer Zach Blas (US) / contemporary artist and musician TCF (NO) / experimental sound artist Mat Dryhurst (UK) / cutting-edge design and research group Metahaven (NL) / electronic musician and artist Yoneda Lemma (FR) / members of xenofeminist collective Laboria Cuboniks aka Katrina Burch (FR) & Diann Bauer(US) / visual artist David Blandy (UK)
http://www.lighthouse.org.uk/programme/the-long-progress-bar
Performing Arts Forum
Summer University 2015, St Erme Outre et Ramecourt, France
Presented Xenofeminism as part of Laboria Cubonics, 11 - 17 August - Philosophy: (In)Formalizing the Outside: Sex, Mathematics, Cybernetics
Taint your horizons and decentralize thought by putting into question where philosophy happens. At PAF, philosophers transit between conceptual practices and situations to embody reason through an abundance of ruses, by amplifying the capacity to think alongside two or more incompatible perspectives at once. With the choice to go against itself and deepen the rifts of eroding neoliberal institutions, Philosophy must discover and explore the dynamics of new conceptual terrain, fractalizing void across a multitude of scales. Following on from last year’s rigorous week, with exceptional thinkers like Reza Negarestani, Nick Land, Lucca Fraser, Amy Ireland, Peter Wolfendale & Mark Fisher, this year's summer university will bring together practitioners and thinkers from contemporary fields of research in sexuality and gender studies, non-classical logic and mathematics, and next-wave cybernetics, in order for new contaminations to occur. The event will orient around two vectors. First, an examination of the conceptual histories of sex and cybernetics, suggesting a new thinking of libidinal politics. Second, a reopening of the questions of formalization and contemporary mathematical philosophy. What is it to think today? To let one field of thought be a virus for another. Our aim is not to prescribe in advance a synthesis of these strands, but rather to create a space of collision, making a ‘solid’ and ‘fixed’ notion of the Outside tremble.
Superconversations Day 31: Diann Bauer responds to Aleksandr Bogdanov
“Immortality Day”with "Multitime Monolife"
as part of Supercommunity in partnership with e-flux and the New Centre for Research and Practice at the Venice Biennale
Technofeminism Now at the ICA, London
Panel discussion chaired by Helen Hester revisiting the contribution of technofeminism, in light of recent developments in leftist critical thinking. This marks the English language publication of the transfeminist collective Laboria Cubonik's Xenofeminism:a Politics for Alienation (2015). Speakers include Sarah Kenber, Laboria Cuboniks and Legacy Russell.
Icarus Meet Apollo
at OMI international Art centre
Opens June 13th
Realism Materialism Art
Launch at the New Museum
Video/perforamnce with Christoph Cox for the book Launch of RMA.
http://www.e-flux.com/announcements/realism-materialism-art-book-launch-at-the-new-museum/
Xenofeminism: A Politics for Alienation
Laboria Cuboniks- collaboration with Luca Frasier, Patricia Reed, Helen Hester, Amy Ireland and Katrina Burch published in English on line and in German in dea ex machina published by Merve.
Speculative Tate
Late at Tate
Screening of Predators and Pests, collaborative video work with Amanda Beech.
Real Flow
Real Flow is an on going collaboration between Diann Bauer, Victoria Ivanova, Christopher Kulendran-Thomas and Suhail Malik. We do R&D of finance and art.
Real Flow offers tailor-made financial solutions for contemporary art by crossing the now wholly permeable and artificially-maintained barriers between art’s markets, markets in general, and art’s flexible and porous semantics. Re-engineering the artwork’s commodity form, this venture tactically integrates art into its diverse channels of exhibition, circulation, and marketization. Financialization’s futurity is operationalized by Real Flow to reconstitute art’s future present and open up new vistas through and beyond capital.
The first iteration of it as a project is the inaugural exhibition at K. (formerly P!) at 334 Broome st NY. It opened on March 1st.
There will be a public talk on Sunday with the four collaborators, moderated by Prem Krishnamurthy on the 8th of March at noon.
ART AND ITS REASON(S)
COURSE TAUGHT WITH PATRICIA REED AT THE NEW CENTRE
This seminar will introduce a diagnosis of contemporary art (CA) that challenges several dominant and ideal narratives endemic to the field, addressing the chasm between what many want CA to do, what many say CA does, and how CA actually operates. This overview grasps CA systemically, including the entire spectrum of production, dissemination, economy, discourses and reception, rather than focusing solely on individual practices. What do we want, or expect from art today in the face of global complexity? How can art be defined outside of a localized and subject-centred paradigm? How can CA move from planes of critical description towards horizons of how it ought to be; and why is this path worth forging for a distinctly 21st century mode of transit? How does art understand itself politically in relation to the scientific and social real, stereoscopically? Can one avow a definition of art within the folds of a leftist project more generally as an endeavor of ethical inhumanism? What sets of particular affordances can this new definition of art map out that other fields cannot? This seminar proposes a first step in a long-term, massively collaborative project for art’s redefinition and reorientation through readings, guest respondents and the experimental format of the digital studio seminar.
MAKING A GLOBAL CITY
(URBANISM, LOCALITY, CAPITAL FLOWS, ART)
COURSE TAUGHT WITH SUHAIL MALIK AT CANNONBALL, MIAMI
This spring I will be teaching a course with Suhail Malik, at Cannonball, an art and education space in Miami. It will investigate the conditions of the contemporary city in general and Miami specifically as not only responding to local and regional development, but also as a node in a global network of cities.
Through a series of seminars and a studio-based project we will look at how real-estate development, contemporary art, geopolitics, immigration, capital investments, technology, and material infrastructure are changing what Miami is.
This course is designed for students from a range of disciplines but will work primarily in and from art.
The aim of the course is to develop strategies and practices that can use the conditions at work in Miami rather than be used by them.
2014
Fing the Future:
the City
Part of Future Summit session: Montreal Biennale
http://bnlmtl2014.org/en/events/fixing-the-future/
Date: Sunday, November 23
Time: 1 pm to 3 pm
Venue: Canadian Centre for Architecture
Admission: Free for Future Summit ticket holders
Information:
Fixing the Future (FtF) aims to provide useful alternatives for thinking the future again, and to do so as an imperative. FtF’s Future Summit panel will focus on cities as vast inhuman systems, complex beyond our casual powers of perception. We assert that what is needed is not the far-off vision of some city in the sky, nor a nostalgic return to the peasant idyll, but a way to connect the immanent life of the city-dweller with the abstract forces which govern her everyday possibilities. We will use this as a point of departure, asking the panel to address questions about how major cities now function, examine the forces that shape them as linked nodes of global capitalism, consider the transition from the ideals of the modernist city to their current reality, and speculate on possibilities of how they could function given these realities and their potential for repurposing.
Panel participants are Marie-Pier Boucher, Keller Easterling and FtF organisers Joshua Johnson and Keith Tilford. The panel will be moderated by Diann Bauer. In keeping with FtF’s overall mission, the aim of the panel is to examine the current conditions of urbanism and speculate constructively on how best to proceed into the future.
Fixing the Future is a New York City based platform for the organisation of online seminars, live events and exhibitions. We avow the development of a political left “at ease with a modernity of abstraction, complexity, globality and technology” (Srnicek/Williams). It is our assertion that transdisciplinary collaboration can substantially contribute to this development. FTF is organised by Diann Bauer, Joshua Johnson, Suhail Malik, Mohammad Salemy and Keith Tilford.
PLOTTING POLITICs
REASON AND POLITICAL ECONOMY
Organized by Diann Bauer
Monday, September 29, 2014 2:00PM EST
In this session Ray Brassier, Nick Srnicek and Alex Williams will talk about the overlap between their philosophical and political concerns despite their differences in disciplinary focus. The aim of the conversation will be to address the interfusions of philosophical rationalism and a 21st century political economy. The discussion will be moderated by Diann Bauer, followed by questions and comments by the other organizers of the Fixing the Future platform in addition to those watching live. This session will not be archived as a video but will be transcribed and posted on our website at a later date.
NY ART BOOK FAIr
With SEQUENCE PRESS
September 26-28
