a’21: Dust to Come_New Media Society/ Parking Video Library

►a'21: Dust to Come_New Media Society/ Parking Video Library

:: ABOUT THIS EVENT (EN/AR) ::

Dust to come is a re-screening of a former online program at New Media Projects which will take place both online/offline in our space and via our website. Was it ever our future? “The Removed Agency” got me by surprise when I received the invitation to contribute to the Future Threads Program. A teenage sci-fi fan, who never watched Star Trek or Star Wars, I asked around from my artist, cinephile and writer friends, and in our conversations led to some interesting findings. On the surface, we don’t talk/write/speculate about the future, a few animated fantasies, a few novels dealing with alternative history, and some timeless dystopian theatre play. And soon I realised I need to educate myself about video games and comic books. Not only we don’t write/create our takes on the future but often being omitted from having future in many other scenarios: in some films, middle-east is consumed/destroyed, because of its natural resources and/or appear on some war room’s wall map or flickering dots on a screen during a pandemic outbreak. The future is blurry; we made countless Macro & Micro mistakes; we know the storm is inevitable; we watch science fiction, or we don’t… The future was never bright as they promised it to be, for some parts of the world is still as non-existent and discriminatory, as if it wasn’t pictured at all and never predicted. See-through eyes, laser guns, and flying objects became killer drones, 3D printing both an environmental threat and a cure for ventilator shortage. The colourful plastic future once was pictured dreamy and chic but no one told us about the dust to come.

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►Arash Khosronejad
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►Arash Hanaei
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►Nassrin Nasser
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►Maryam Katan
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►Shaahin Peymani
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►Elnaz Salehi
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►Milad Forouzandeh 
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►Mohsen Hazrati
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►Nazanin Aharipour
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►Ramin Rahimi
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* This event is part of Oyoun's a’21 Festival - Post Digital Ignorance x Techno Utopia aiming to challenge the status quo while centring perspectives on non-human life, queer ecology, decolonising knowledge, forced displacement, and more.The project was financed by Berlin’s Hauptstadtkulturfonds.

Produced by: Oyoun in collaboration with amberPlatform

Curatorial Team: Amirali Ghasemi, Ali Cem Doğan, Cenkhan Aksoy, Christoph Wachter, Ebru Yetişkin, Ekmel Ertan, Hamza Chamas, Mathias Jud, Milad Forouzandeh, Mohsen Hazrat, Nina Martin, Rajaa Shamam, Youssef El Idrissi Participants include: Eda Sütunç, Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley, Mary Maggic, Rachel Uwa, Renata Salecl, Seloua Luste Boulbina, Pelin Tan, Yara Mekawei, and many more.

Funded by: Capital Cultural Fund

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