Reports
Fairytale’s end
An unresolved nostalgia haunts new exhibition remembering the end of oil and gas-excavation in Norway.
Notes of the politicization of art: Accelerationism as Futurism
Image: Martha Rosler, Semiotics of the Kitchen. 1975. MoMA, New York. In the documentary Hypernormalisation (2016), Adam Curtis raises the issue of art’s depoliticization in the late 1970s. He aregues that artists, or at least the radical ones Curtis was interested...
Fiksdal, Floen and Slåttøy’s Fictions of the Flesh: a lesson in futuring
https://vimeo.com/544925466 Film by Sveinung Gjessing One day in February, CoFutures artistic fellow Ingri Fiksdal set out to rehearse her choreography in Grønland, an immigrant neighborhood of Oslo. Inspired by Nnedi Okorafor’s novel Binti, it featured octopus-like...
Give me liberty, or give me Afrofuturism: Frank Miller’s dystopian America
A short-lived but popular collaboration between Frank Miller and Dave Gibbon titled Give me liberty raises the question of what Afrofuturism is. The four-part miniseries depicts the epic life of Martha Washington, a Black girl from the infamous Cabrini-Green public...
Raised by Wolves: colonial fantasies of moral ambiguity
https://www.youtube.com/embed/dFs4yX4V7NQ Often, knowing what you shouldn’t be looking for can be as valuable as the opposite. The HBO series Raised by Wolves provides the perfect example, as the Ridley Scott-SF-industrial-complex keeps churning out ideas inspired by...