With its unpredictable weather patterns and catastrophic, seismic events, climate breakdown calls forth a renewed attention to forms of vitalism – from animism and spirituality, to new materialist philosophies, to scientific research on more-than-human consciousness and Earth systems, through to resistances to settler-colonial epistemologies.
Meanwhile, machine dreams and the horizon of artificial consciousness flood popular imagination and narrative alike, in an uncanny appearance of late-capitalist surveillance in the collective unconscious. In this lecture, curator Lucia Pietroiusti will reflect on dreams (terrified imaginaries, uncanny recognitions, alternative possibilities) in a more-than-human context, and the cultural forms – from visual art, to poetry, to myth – that have held these paradigms of the imagination across deep time and continue to do so.
In collaboration with Charles Rouleau in the context of his research and artistic project Woven in Vegetal Fabric: On Plant Becomings Exhibition opening tonight, 20:30 at Casino Display, 1, rue de la Loge, L-1945 Luxembourg
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