Tomorrow = Another Today The future is obsolete. The 1990s were the end of the century that mobilized on “the future”. Since, global neoliberalism has spread the emptiness of the “post” ideology, whereby the illusion of having gone “beyond” class, race, and gender has left the door open to the desert of semiocapitalist desires, the noise of the overproduction of commodities and intellectual property, and the rise of biosurveillance. The 00 decade, which started with the dotcom crash, saw the New Fall, as social movements were cornered by the war on terrorism, the obsession with so-called security, and the implementation of financial insecurity and austerity, on a global scale. In parallel, aliens started to proliferate in the shape of afrofuturism, cyberfeminism, and queer futurity, among others, and highlighted the fact that the “future” invented by modern capitalism, futurism and to some extent cyberpunk, was white, male, and heteronormative. After more than a century, should we still care about “the future”? Recently the speculative turn and the calls to focus on the present might be symptoms of a future in crisis. If the idea of the future has inherently been developed in relation to technology, science, and progress, how do artists today contribute to the construction and/or subversion of the future? What kind of imaginations can come out of collective exhaustion, melancholy, of being fed up on a wide scale? What sort of non-market value can co-emerge without a future and the refusal of neoliberal resilience/positivity? What sort of creativity can come out of being liberated from the future? Are negativity, nihilism, cynicism or irony ethics of the privileged? What kind of feminist ethics is created in #zerofuture? The 11th edition of The HTMlles features projects that shed light on the perception of “today’s futures” by different generations, including critical and creative propositions by more than 50 local and international artists, curators, and thinkers, through online and IRL exhibitions, performances, discussions, and workshops, taking place in Montreal/stolen indigenous land. The future invented by modern capitalism is in crisis. #zerofuture is the point zero of collective liberation from “the future” in order to (re)build community. The absence of a future is a good reason to invent one... htmlles.net/2014/index.php?page=accueil&lang=en&jour=3
Posted on: Sun, 09 Nov 2014 14:29:46 +0000
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