DXG #2: Thinking Futurisms Critically

About

The Otolith Group will lead an online seminar with filmmakers and artists to discuss the differential stakes entailed by engaging with critical futurisms, futures and futurity with regard to moving image making. 

This workshop forms part of The Ignorant Art School Sit-in Curriculum #3 programmed in collaboration with the Department for Xenogenesis.
 

Booking

The seminar is free to attend. Book a space via Eventbrite. 
 

Participant information

This is a large capacity online seminar held on Zoom. It will be lead by The Otolith Group with opportunity for discussion with participants. It is aimed at filmmakers and artists. After registering a free place via Eventbrite, participants will receive a Zoom meeting link.
 

Biography

The Otolith Group is an award-winning artist led collective founded by Anjalika Sagar and Kodwo Eshun in 2002.

Their moving image, audio works, performances and installations are characterized by an engagement with the legacies and potentialities of diasporic futurisms that explore modes of temporal anomalies, anthropic inversions and synthetic alienation.

Approaching curation as an artistic practice of building intergenerational and cross-cultural platforms, the collective has been influential in critically introducing particular works of artists such as Chris Marker, Harun Farocki, Anand Patwardhan, Etel Adnan, Black Audio Film Collective, Sue Clayton, Mani Kaul, Peter Watkins, and Chimurenga in the UK, US, Europe, and Lebanon.