Future Playground
Time is neither natural nor neutral. Be it through the monetisation of time spent on social media or the increasingly detailed time-tracking of workers, it is a highly regulated commodity over which we have little agency. Be it through the biblical seven-day week or the imposition of Sunday as a day off and other holidays, (Christian) religion and the nation state penetrate the ways our time is distributed. Be it through an epistemic attachment to linear time and to posited ‘progress’ or through valorisations of speed and efficiency, Eurocentric modernity and ableist pressures have squeezed our time into tight contours that generate a widespread sense of constant lateness. How can we imagine, choose, and work towards desired futures grounded in such a sense of time?
Future Playground brings together diverse practices and discourses – artistic research, game design, legal theory, DJing and more – to ask how shifting our conceptions and experiences of time might allow us to imagine and enact critical visions of the future. Guided by the semi-fictional, rules-based but open-outcome, nonproductive universe of play, it is an invitation to mess up time and probe futurities we want to inhabit.
With: David Bloom, Imayna Caceres, Julia Grillmayr & Christina Gruber, Zeynab Kirikou Gueye, Ralo Mayer, Kara Stone / Liv Schellander, Mitchell Travis & Ammar Bustami
The detailed programme will be available soon.