This lecture was delivered within the framework of the Public Program – Cinematic Narratives from Elsewhere that accompanies the Former West Research Exhibition Spacecraft Icarus 13: Narratives of Progress from Elsewhere at BAK, basis voor actuele kunst, Utrecht.
This first installment of the Public Program titled Bypasses to Modernity, which took place on 08.10.2011 at the Utrechts Archief, Utrecht, considered various narratives of modernity in contrast to the singular western view. Looking at the political and socio-economic conditions that have unfolded in China and other peripheries in the Global South as they undergo different turbulent passages to “development,” and at the same time reflecting upon the recent revolutions in the Middle East, this day’s program considered the conditions in which transformative forces are incubated on a societal level and speculates about an alternative order beyond the western-led hegemony and dominant neoliberal economic and political discourses currently in operation.
Forthcoming Public Program – Cinematic Narratives from Elsewhere activities:
Against Amnesia and Apathy 22.10.2011, 11.00–19.30 hrs
Excavating a Cinematic Future 05.11.2011, 14.00–17.00 hrs
The Political Carnivalesque 19.11.2011, 14.00–17.00 hrs
Revisions of African Representation 03.12.2011, 14.00–17.00 hrs
(All take place at the Utrechts Archief, Utrecht)