Sequelism
Sequelism: Part 2 will open in July 2010 as a major off-site project.
Sequelism: Part 3
Possible, Probable, or Preferable Futures
18 July – 20 September 2009
Artists: Mariana Castillo Deball, Heman Chong, Graham Gussin, Victor Man, Francesc Ruiz, Jordan Wolfson and Haegue Yang
Haegue Yang, Holiday for Tomorrow, installation view, Arnolfini. Photo: Carl Newland
Sequelism: Possible, Probable, or Preferable Futures is a project that looks into the future and at that which is yet to happen. It considers how art and the inexact arena of futurology might be utilised as a means to better comprehend, rethink, obscure, or even colonise the present.
Knowledge of current and historical events often plays a role in collective foresight or prognosis of change that is yet to take place. In a similar fashion, Futurology could be said to deal with memory in reverse. The project seeks to investigate how prospective visions might be generated for vastly differing reasons, offering great idealism on the one hand, or harnessing political and societal anxieties on the other.
The future is commonly manifested in popular cultural forms, including science fiction, yet how might we look beyond the present without recourse to established genres? To what extent does strategic foresight affect our understanding of the ‘now’ or the ‘when’? Is the future a culturally specific phenomenon that is inherently ‘Western’ in its own gaze and orientation? And just how accurate can we be when imagining the future? The Sequelism project addresses issues and questions such as these. Disputing illustrative organisation around a predetermined thesis, the project itself invites doubt, speculation and to-be-determined outcomes.
Curated by Arnolfini and Latitudes.
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Neil Cummings and Marysia Lewandowska
Museum Futures: Distributed
Screening/Discussion, Saturday 18 July, 2pm, Free
Neil Cummings and Marysia Lewandowska’s film Museum Futures: Distributed (2008) is a machinima record of the centenary interview with Moderna Museet’s executive Ayan Lindquist in June 2058. It explores a possible genealogy for contemporary art practice and its institutions, by reimagining the role of artists, museums, galleries, markets, ‘manufactories’ and academies. The screening will also incorporate a discussion led by Neil Cummings and the curators of the Sequelism exhibition, discussing the future of art institutions.
The Futurological Congress
Sequelism Artists’ Screning Programe
Screening, Friday 21 August, 7.30pm, £3/£2 concs
A programme of artists’ videos selected by the curators of Sequelism to accompany the exhibition, including works by Marjolijn Dijkman, Jordan Wolfson and Julia Meltzer & David Thorne. Introduced by Nav Haq, Exhibitions Curator, Arnolfini.
Jordan Wolfson, Untitled (the nothing), 2009
9mins 51sec
Marjolijn Dijkman, Wandering through the future, 2007
60mins
Haluk Akakce, Tomorrow is Another Day, 2005
9mins 55sec
Julia Meltzer & David Thorne, We Will Live to See These Things, 2007
47mins
David Maljkovic
Scene for a New Heritage Trilogy
Screening, Thursday 17 September, 6.30pm, Free
The films in David Maljkovic’s renowned Scene for a New Heritage Trilogy (2004–6) are set between 2045 and 2071, visualising different encounters with a communist monument at the memorial park at Petrova Gora, Croatia, and speculating on how the meanings of history and monuments change over time.
Roy Ascott
Art and Technoetic Evolution:
When the Mind outgrows the Body
Artist’s talk, Saturday 19 September, 2pm, Free
Artist and theorist Roy Ascott gives a presentation on the recent ideas informing his Technoetics art practice, that has grown out of his long-term research into cybernetic and ‘telematic’ art.
Supported by the State Corporations for Spanish Cultural Action Abroad (SEACEX), the Direction of Cultural and Scientific Relations of the Spanish Ministry of Foreing Affairs, Institute Ramon Llull and IFA
