Calendars:Fine Art Calendar/Fine Art Calendar/16-12-2024 -Event 1

Workshop with T.J. Demos: Radical Futurisms 13:30 - 17:00 Location: Willem de Kooning Academy, Wijnhaven, WH 03-155

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Is all coming to an end - ecosystems, democracies, and civilization as we know it?

Art historian and cultural critic T.J. Demos proposes strategies of temporal re-orientation towards the ‘worlds-to-come’. How can we imagine radical futures beyond end-of-the-world narratives? What does radical futurism, emerging from the traditions of the oppressed and those already living in postapocalyptic conditions, look like? How can we decolonize the future and cultivate certain modalities of chronopolitics to imagine the ‘not-yet’, a ‘justice-to-come’, solidarity and multispecies flourishing?

In this workshop we will explore the anti-capitalist, activistic and aesthetic efforts of radical futurisms, departing from two selected chapters from T.J. Demos’ book Radical Futurisms: Ecologies of Collapse, Chronopolitics, and Justice-to-Come (2023).

Participants are invited to consider and discuss the role of social and political movements, visual culture, and aesthetic practices concerning visions of radical futurity.