Future Artefacts FM: The New Weird with Monya Riachi
Artist performance and live podcast recording, TACO!, London
Future Artefacts FM host artist Monya Riachi, as part of their New Weird Mini-series. Riachi will perform live, debuting a new text work alongside her research unfolding the processes of map making, and their relationships to borders and power as imperial constructions.
The event will be followed by a conversation led by Future Artefacts hosts Nina, Rebecca and Niamh, exploring Riachi’s reflections on fiction, worldbuilding through materials and the use of theatrics to make strange the legacies of empire inherited by our present.
What kinds of anarchy, activism or ‘being the other’ might create an emancipatory place to build new worlds from? Who gets to make worlds, what kinds of worlds are they, and who do they serve?
For their second mini-series Future Artefacts will be exploring what weird means. Inspired by the New Weird, Future Artefacts consider what kinds of technologies, ecologies and disciplines can be explored through this sentiment. The series looks to locate the slippage between where something becomes weird or familiar, for example, the inclusion of generated images in news articles.
Future Artefacts are interested in works that challenge the flatness of science fiction and expand notions of storytelling. Some examples of how this flatness can be challenged are; ways the uncanny can be used as a tool for repositioning; deteriorating notions of “good” and “evil” into amorphic forces; or interrogating different dimensions as multiplanar realities.
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