Conference FridayDuring the three-day conference, internationally renowned artists and thinkers from various disciplines explore and speculate on what being human means in the present time.Conference SaturdayHow to create gaps for new thoughts to emerge? How to crack open the contemporary situation? How to imagine a different future?Conference SundaySpeculative fictions offer a glimpse of futures far beyond what we think we can imagine now, and can provide tools for resistance.
ARTISTS/SPEAKERS
Fri 24 Feb
De Brakke Grond
Erica Scourti was born in Athens, Greece and is now based in London. Her work across different media draws on personal experience to explore life, labour, gender and love in a fully mediated world.
Erica Scourti
Fri 24 Feb
De Brakke Grond
Maryam Monalisa Gharavi is an artist, writer, and theorist. Her work in film, video, performance, text, photography, drawing, and sound explores the interplay between aesthetic and political valences ...
Maryam Monalisa Gharavi
Fri 24 Feb
De Brakke Grond
Founded by Vinca Kruk and Daniel van der Velden, Metahaven is a collective working across design, art, and filmmaking.
Metahaven
Fri 24 Feb
De Brakke Grond
Isabell Lorey is a political theorist at the European Institute for Progressive Cultural Policies, and co-editor of transversal texts.
Isabell Lorey
Fri 24 Feb
De Brakke Grond
Nina Power is a cultural critic, social theorist, philosopher and translator. Power teaches Philosophy at the University of Roehampton and Critical Writing in Art & Design at the Royal College of Art....
Nina Power
Fri 24 Feb
De Brakke Grond
Peter Frase is a writer and editor at Jacobin magazine, one of the largest left-wing publications in the United States. He has written about work, labor, technology, and the future of capitalism.
Peter Frase
Fri 24 Feb
De Brakke Grond
John Palmesino is an architect and urbanist. He has established Territorial Agency together with Ann-Sofi Rönnskog. Territorial Agency is an independent organisation that innovatively promotes and wo...
John Palmesino
Fri 24 Feb
De Brakke Grond
Natasha Ginwala is a curator, researcher, and writer. She is curator of Contour Biennale 8 and curatorial advisor for documenta 14 (2017).
Natasha Ginwala
Fri 24 Feb
De Brakke Grond
Nick Axel is an architectural critic, theorist, editor and researcher based in Rotterdam. He is currently Deputy Editor of e-flux Architecture, where his work focuses on experimenting with the media a...
Nick Axel
Sat 25 Feb
De Brakke Grond
David Roden teaches Philosophy at the Open University His published work has addressed the relationship between deconstruction and analytic philosophy, philosophical naturalism, the metaphysics of sou...
David Roden
Sat 25 Feb
De Brakke Grond
Rick Dolphijn is a writer and a philosopher. He wrote Foodscapes: towards a Deleuzian Ethics of Consumption, New Materialism: Interviews and Cartographies (with Iris van der Tuin).
Rick Dolphijn
Sat 25 Feb
De Brakke Grond
Sarah is a cultural geographer whose published work on cultures of nature includes a number of influential books such as Hybrid Geographies (2001), Using Social Theory (2004) and Political Matter (201...
Sarah J. Whatmore
Sat 25 Feb
De Brakke Grond
Ben Russell is an artist and curator whose films, installations, and performances foster a deep engagement with the history and semiotics of the documentary image.
Ben Russell
Sat 25 Feb
De Brakke Grond
Erika Balsom is a senior lecturer in Film Studies and Liberal Arts at King’s College London. Her next book, After Uniqueness: A History of Film and Video Art in Circulation, is forthcoming this spri...
Erika Balsom
Sat 25 Feb
De Brakke Grond
Helen Verran is an Australian historian and philosopher of science. She has spent nearly thirty years working with Aboriginal Australians in northeast Arnhem Land.
Helen Verran
Sat 25 Feb
De Brakke Grond
Armen Avanessian studied philosophy and political science in Vienna and Paris. After completing his dissertation in literature, he worked at the Free University Berlin from 2007-2014.
Armen Avanessian
Sat 25 Feb
De Brakke Grond
Jennifer Gabrys is Reader in Sociology at Goldsmiths, University of London, and Principal Investigator on the European Research Council funded project, Citizen Sense.
Jennifer Gabrys
Sat 25 Feb
De Brakke Grond
Noortje Marres is Associate Professor in the Centre for Interdisciplinary Methodologies (CIM) at the University of Warwick (UK). She studied Sociology and Philosophy of Science and Technology at the U...
Noortje Marres
Sat 25 Feb
De Brakke Grond
Wendy Hui Kyong Chun is Professor of Modern Culture and Media at Brown University. She has studied both Systems Design Engineering and English Literature, which she combines and mutates in her current...
Wendy Chun
Wed 1 Feb - Sun 26 Feb
Arti et Amicitiae
Pinar Yoldas is an infradisciplinary designer, artist and researcher currently based in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Her work develops within biological sciences and digital technologies.
Pinar Yoldas
Wed 1 Feb - Sun 26 Feb
Arti et Amicitiae
Zach Blas is an artist and writer whose practice engages technics and minoritarian politics. Currently, he is a Lecturer in the Department of Visual Cultures at Goldsmiths, University of London.
Zach Blas
Sun 26 Feb - Thu 23 Feb
De Brakke Grond
Daniel Rourke is a writer and artist based in London. In his work Daniel exploits speculative and science fiction in search of a radical ‘outside’ to the human(ities).
Daniel Rourke
Sun 26 Feb - Thu 23 Feb
De Brakke Grond
Laurie Penny is an award-winning journalist, essayist, public speaker, writer, activist, internet nanocelebrity. Laurie writes about politics, social justice, pop culture, feminism, technology and men...
Laurie Penny
Sun 26 Feb - Thu 23 Feb
De Brakke Grond
Ytasha L. Womack is an author, filmmaker, independent scholar and dancer. She is author of the award winning book Afrofuturism: The World of Black Sci Fi & Fantasy Culture.
Ytasha L. Womack
Sun 26 Feb
De Brakke Grond
Eyal Weizman is an architect, Professor of Spatial and Visual Cultures, and Director of the Centre for Research Architecture at Goldsmiths, University of London.
Eyal Weizman
Sun 26 Feb
De Brakke Grond
Ingrid Burrington writes, makes maps, and tells jokes about places, politics, and the weird feelings people have about both.
Ingrid Burrington
Sun 26 Feb
De Brakke Grond
Jamon Van Den Hoek is a geographer and remote sensing scientist. He pursues satellite imagery and machine learning approaches to document social-environmental consequences of armed violent conflict.