Event overview
Futures & Fictions: Visual Cultures Public Programme Autumn 2015
Revisiting Genesis: The Slideshow – Oreet Ashery (Goldsmiths)
Thursday October 8
5.00-7.00pm
Professor Stuart Hall Building LG02
Revisiting Genesis is a web series in development to be shot in December 2015, featuring a nurse who creates biographical slideshows for those actively preparing for death, and Genesis, an artist who is dying symbolically and otherwise. Revisiting Genesis responds to a diverse range of influences including the growing digital afterlife industry and expanded mourning practices, feminist art reincarnations, outsider communities, the loss and transmutation of meaningful social structures under neoliberalism, care and friendships.
The talk will consider the span of the project in relation to the politics of fiction.
Revisiting Genesis is kindly supported by The Wellcome Trust, Stanley Picker Gallery, Art Council England, Dorich House Museum, Tyneside Cinema and Goldsmiths College.
Oreet Ashery is a London based visual artist working in an international context. Ashery’s work engages with biopolitics, gender materiality and potential communities through an interdisciplinary practice spanning live situations and performances, writing, moving image, photography and assemblages. Most recently Ashery produced Party for Freedom, an Artangel commission and The World is Flooding, a performance for Tate Modern Turbine Hall, 2014.
Chair: Simon O'Sullivan
Futures and Fictions explores the political imaginary, the inventing and imaging of alternate narratives and image-worlds that might be pitched against the impasses of the present. The series ranges from future-oriented science fictions and alternative space-time plots to myths and images generated by marginalized and ‘minor’ communities, queer-feminist strategies of fictioning, and the production of new Afro- and other futurisms.
Series Organisers: Henriette Gunkel, Ayesha Hameed & Simon O’Sullivan
The events are free and no booking is required. All welcome.
Dates & times
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8 Oct 2015 | 5:00pm - 7:00pm |
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