Theory: Future Playground

Theory: Future Playground

Fri 13. & Sat 14.06.

What do you want the future to be like? And what are the conditions for adequately answering that question? Through artistic research, game design, legal theory, DJing and more, the two-day theory festival Future Playground asks how shifting our conceptions and experiences of time might allow us to imagine and enact critical visions of the future.

Licking meteorites to explore the expansion of extractivism; playing with dinosaurs to probe the Anthropocene; having your fortune told to tune in with desire as a politicised state; taking part in games to imagine anti-ableist futures; manipulating clay to undo normative concepts of time: guided by the semi-fictional, rules-based but open-outcome, nonproductive universe of play, "Future Playground" is an invitation to mess up time and seek futurities we want to inhabit.

With: David Bloom, Ammar Bustami, Imayna Caceres, Julia Grillmayr, Christina Gruber, Zeynab Kirikou Gueye, Ralo Mayer, Liv Schellander, Kara Stone, Mitchell Travis