Ambitopia: Speculative Constructions of an Undecidable Future
Anna Engelhardt, Emilia Tapprest, Victor Evink, and Lilly Markaki
Ambitopia is a form of thinking and imagination that aims to challenge the dystopia-utopia binary. The scale and complexity of the issues that humans are currently facing, along with the unprecedented potential generated by recent technological development, is posing new challenges to critical thinking and speculative imagination. This talk aims at giving an insight into the complexity of the scenarios emerging from current techno-political configurations of the real, through the work of four artists and researchers.
Teatro San Leonardo, Bologna, Italy
13 May 2022, 6pm
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Scent of Time
Polina Hordiievska, Emilia Tapprest, Victor Evink, and Dayana Mankovskaya
Scent of Time’s protagonist is a twelve year old girl, whose coming to an age is tormented by opposite ideological and ethico-aesthetic paradigms. The title is borrowed from the book by the German-Korean philosopher Byung-Chul Han. In his work, Byung-Chul Han opposes traditional Eastern systems of time measurement, based on the burning of the incense, to Western mechanical systems of time measurement, with the objective of reevaluate the contemplative dimension of time against the capitalist forms of temporality based on the notions of work and productivity.
Teatro San Leonardo, Bologna, Italy
14 May 2022, 6, 8, and 10 pm