SS21: The Long Triumph | VIRTUALLYREALITY

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14.05 -

The New Anxiety

The 300+ year technologies built to capture, understand and connect the world - from maps through geostationary satellites to contemporary algorithms and big data collection - have been exposed as weapons-grade systems that pluralise reality and destabilise the present. How does living in this new anxious world feel, and how deep do these systems take root?

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SS21 is over! Some works have since been re-linked to alternative public links, whilst others are now no longer available.

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Over ten weeks and nearly 30 events - performances, screenings, discussions, virtual installations and workshops - all displayed in a new streaming-service-style format - VIRTUALLYREALITY SS21 addresses the knowing sprawl of a world machinicly shaped, and how we might rethink our worldly engagements during and after times of emergency [read more].

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14.05 -

The New Anxiety

The 300+ year technologies built to capture, understand and connect the world - from maps through geostationary satellites to contemporary algorithms and big data collection - have been exposed as weapons-grade systems that pluralise reality and destabilise the present. How does living in this anxious world feel, and how deep do these systems take root?

28.05 -

Devotion

Our previous ‘The New Anxiety’ theme showed attention and devotion to the inner workings of systems is vital for us to impart humanity into the folds of this pluralised world. But what if our devotional abilities - romantic, religious, corporate or otherwise - have been co-opted by higher forms of authority?

11.06 -

Antagonisation

We now turn our gaze towards antagonising these systems whose shadows loom over us. We shall take things to pieces and put them back together, find structural fault-lines, antagonise borderlines, plan how to blow the system apart.

02.07 -

Dystopian Thinking is No Longer Helpful

The future must not be in ruins. If we listen and learn from the hauntings of the past, we can change our course of direction and live on new terrains. Utopian thinking and speculative futurism - particularly in club spaces - play vital roles in antagonising the present and building triumphant futures.

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16.07 -

Symbiosis for Survival

Humanity must evolve empathetically, return to the soil, frolic in symbiosis with the natural order. In the face of a mass extinction event, how may we recalibrate our relationship with our planet, with other species, with each other and our deepest selves to survive?

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VIRTUALLYREALITY SS21: The Long Triumph is gratefully supported by Arts Council England and Hamburgische Kulturstiftung.

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