We propose a congress to find out: We go into the future to see clearer, to see the ruins of our present, the ruins of a future. We call it retro-futuristic. Last March in Berlin, last May in Johannesburg, next … Continue reading
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Saturdays, Men and Bridges – The curious case of Suicidal Insanity by Amitesh Grover
OK, So the story so far, after hours of deliberation and knee-scratching, this is what it seems like – In the beginning the Universe was created. This made a lot of women very angry and was widely regarded as a … Continue reading
the archive
Preservation of the Future, Delhi, 2081 tries to remember what might have been for the research audience who themselves see their own story. Archivists around the world examined items in our present and determined their new past, all in one … Continue reading
New Delhi TALK
Suman Sridhar’s first pieceThe host Mayanka Davemukherji: Ladies, welcome to the year 2081. We just experienced a performance by the musician and performance artist Suman Sridhar who will be back soon. Today is the 2nd of March 2081 Today we … Continue reading
New Delhi WALK
What Happened 2081? New Delhi WALK on March 3, 11:00
We walk from The Hall of Nations to the Lotus Temple, the Bahá’í House of Worship
Contributors so far for the 2081 New Delhi TALK on March 2, 13:00
actress and yoga teacher Maya Krishna Rao + musician and producer Suman Sridhar + literature and theatre specialist Dr. Anita Cherian + Cybermohalla’s & Trickster City’s Shveta Sarda + the conversation architect Gurmeet S. Rai + artist Seline Baumgartner + … Continue reading
Tel Aviv
What is lost, is knowledge. What is left, is a hole in our minds. It is, basically, still the old Warholian thing: From A to B (and back again). Just this time, in Tel Aviv, in 2081, it is a … Continue reading
New Delhi
New Delhi is a city like an architect’s day dream – what Mahandra Raj constructed around 1981 could easily be seen from the future as a machine created to save world knowledge. We will have scientists, archeologists, medical experts, artists … Continue reading
Johannesburg
Johannesburg end of May will be our second installment. It is a city suffused with so many layers of past and present that we will have to add only a few twists to bring out a truth long past. With … Continue reading
Berlin
Berlin on March 24 and 25 is the first event in the futuristic historicism that we propose: A kick-off event into a future that is long past. There will be a one-day-conference with an all-female speakers cast including scientists, archeologists, … Continue reading
São Paulo
São Paulo in November will be our last installment for this year. (Beijing, Moscow, and Rome to follow in 2082) São Paulo is a modern city in every sense. Along the huge avenidas you see the fantastic concrete buildings by … Continue reading
Walk from Goethe on Main to Miniland, Sunday 11am
With us will be the writer and filmmaker Chris Petit, philosopher Achille Mbembe, architects Doung Anwar Jahangeer, Arno Brandlhuber, Sam Chermayeff, Tobias Hönig, and Robert Burghardt and the students of the postgraduate masterprogram Akademie c/o, Nuremberg
Contributors so far for the 2081 Johannesburg TALK on May 26, 14:00
sociologist Sarah Nuttall + musician Jill Richards + singer and actress Julia Hummer performes with Tolo, Ngakna and Faraih + performance artist Sindi Sampson + musicologist Juanita Orecchia PhD + creative collaborative platform Center for Historical Reenactments: Gabi Ngcobo and … Continue reading
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La Zona
27. April, 19:00 – Opening 28 April – 3 Juni 2012 Neue Gesellschaft für Bildende Kunst (NGBK) Oranienstr. 25 10999 Berlin http://www.ngbk.de The exhibition La Zona identifies different categories of ”zone”. The main reference is the zone in Andrei Tarkovsky’s … Continue reading
What Happened 2081? Julia Hummer and Hildur Guðnadóttir
March 24, Kunst-Werke Berlin
Tel Aviv
What happened 2081? Vera Lehndorff
Berlin March 24, Kunst-Werke Berlin Titel: ‘Lost’ Make-up artist: Servullo Vocal, recorded @: ‘andereBaustelle’ by Boris Wielsdorf, Studio Berlin Sound-effects: Alva Noto
What happened 2081? All Then
Voice over written and performed by Chris Petit. Berlin March 24, Kunst-Werke Berlin Michael Althen or All Then, 2047 December, part of masked simian deity. Origins obscure. We don’t know, we really don’t know how these godheads came about. There … Continue reading
What happened 2081? Skype from Delhi
Skype with Maya Krishna Rao from Delhi. Written and organized by Amitesh Grover. Berlin March 24, Kunst-Werke Berlin
What happened 2081? Skype from Johannesburg
Sarah Nuttall live from Maponya, Soweto in conversation with Anna-Catharina Gebbers Berlin March 24, Kunst-Werke Berlin
The Publishing Impulse Conference @ Shenkar College, Ramat Gan April 29-30
The second pop-up station of ”Possibility of a Book”: The Publishing Impulse Conference @ Shenkar College, Ramat Gan | Digital and Social Revolutions: the Publishing Act in the 21st Century | April 29-30 RSVP for the first day of panels … Continue reading
Zoo City by Lauren Beukes
Gwyneth Jones The Guardian, Saturday 14 May 2011 This Arthur C Clarke award-winner, recommended by William Gibson, is the other side of cyberpunk In pagan/wiccan/shamanic circles the world over, it is agreed that you don’t choose your power animal, or … Continue reading
Walk, March 25, Berlin
Chris Petit reading from Iain Sinclair’s Ghost Milk Chris Petit and Iain Sinclair Tobias Hönig
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Preservation of the Future, 2081
Images by Chloe Richard and June 14
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Landwehrstraße, March 24, Kunst-Werke
Hildur Guðnadóttir and Julia Hummer with Ayzit Bostan’s piece “Landwehrstraße” and Bomber Jackets
Cacheu, March 24, Kunst-Werke
Joana Barrios presenting Filipa César’s piece.
Excerpts from Non Tutta, March 24, Kunst-Werke
Anne Tismer, with Tom Tiest
Mobile, March 24, Kunst-Werke
Aino Laberenz & Anna-Catharina Gebbers
****** March 24, 10:30 Kunst-Werke *****
starts 10:30, at Kunst-Werke, with: South-African sociologist Sarah Nuttall * Mezzo-soprano Melanie Forgeron and pianist Katharina Sellheim* American theorist Victoria Nelson * Vera Lehndorff, performance artist from Berlin * Composer Annie Gosfield from New York* Portuguese artist Filipa César * … Continue reading
Christopher Roth
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+++ March 25, The Walk, we start 11:00 at Kunst-Werke +++
On March 25, we walk from the Kunst-Werke to the Olympic Stadium–location of the 2084 Olympics/ Psychogeography With us will be: British writers Iain Sinclair and Chris Petit the producer Bob Last and the architects Arno Brandlhuber and Tobias Hoenig
Ayzit Bostan
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Anne Tismer / Julia Hummer
SILVIA ALBARELLA + ANNE TISMER NON-TUTTA [NICHT-VOLLKOMMENE]: http://www.sophiensaele.com/produktionen.php?IDstueck=944 Aufführungen /märz 09 10 11 / 20:00 UHR ++++++++++++++ Plattenspieler – THOMAS MEINECKE und JULIA HUMMER: http://www.berlin.de/tickets/suche/detail.php?id=628715 HAU/ Hebbel am Ufer 2 /Hallesches Ufer 32, / 20.00 / Montag, 12.03.2012
New Contributors for Berlin:
Avery F. Gordon is Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Santa Barbara, Visiting Faculty Fellow at the Center for Research Architecture, Goldsmiths College, University of London and Keeper of the Hawthorne Archives. She is the author of Ghostly … Continue reading
“The Life of Christina the Astonishing, As Told By the Martyr Herself in the Year 2081 C.E.”
On March 24, Victoria Nelson will talk about: ”Taking as my motto the old proverb, “The future has an ancient heart,” I will describe the adventures of the twelfth-century Flemish saint Christina Mirabilis, celebrated for coming back from the dead … Continue reading
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AUKTION 3000
Art Auction at Hamburger Bahnhof in Aid of Christoph Schlingensief’s Operndorf Afrika 8 March 2012, 8 pm (doors open at 7 pm) http://www.auktion3000.com/
TAN Generator
Berliner Sparkasse, 2040
Paris 2081
Beaubourg
Ghost Milk
Robert Macfarlane, The Guardian: Iain Sinclair’s struggles with the city of London Iain Sinclair has spent decades documenting the capital and its edgelands. Now he has launched a furious attack on the Olympic development project. http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2011/jul/15/ghost-milk-iain-sinclair-olympics I was convinced … Continue reading
The New Chronology
When we tried to get in touch with Christian Posthofen of Walther König Bookstore, we got an email back stating that Mister Posthofen will be back in office February 13. This was in German. The English version read: I will … Continue reading
Doubled Berlin: Volksbühne | Freie Volksbühne
Volksbühne Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz, East Berlin. Freie Volksbühne, Schaperstrasse, West Berlin.
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Speakers so far: South-African sociologist Sarah Nuttall * American theorist Victoria Nelson * Vera Lehndorff, performance artist from Berlin * Portuguese artist Filipa César * artist and fashion designer Ayzit Bostan from Munich * costume designer and opera director Aino … Continue reading
Cacheu
Possibility of a Book
April 29,30, Publishing Impulse conference and workshops at the Shenkar College of Engineering, Design & Art, Tel Aviv
Conflict is over
Another story of Filipa. When there is a disagreement in the family, her daughter says: Can’t we be all Nelson Mandela?
God reloaded
Constant signs of change: Filipa told us today the story of her daughter who attends the Nelson Mandela School in Berlin. Question: Do you believe in God? No, we believe in English.
Amitabha Mukhopadhyay’s Megalopolis One 2080, A.D.
A Science Fiction Tale of a Futuristic Society and Economy Welcome to Megalopolis One, a mega-city that has cutting-edge technology, a thriving and abundant ecosystem and planet, and responsible citizens who care about the greater good. Anirudh Mukhopahyay is the … Continue reading
Hall Of Nations
Quantum Diplomacy, German-American Relations, and A Psychogeography of Berlin
Bosch Fellow James Der Derian was supposed to be working on a book version of his documentary film Human Terrain , about the deployment of academics in the Iraq war. Armed with graduate degrees in anthropology and other social sciences, … Continue reading
Harrison Bergeron by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
The plot is set in the year 2081. Due to the 211th, 212th and 213th Amendments to the Constitution of America, all Americans are mandated equal. “They were not only equal before God and the law. They were equal every … Continue reading
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