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THE DEPARTMENT OF XENOGENESIS
The Department of Xenogenesis (DXG) is a time space enacted by The Otolith Group for convening public online and offline discussions, performance, screenings and exhibitions with artists, filmmakers, theorists and musicians. The DXG takes place in the context of the exhibition The Otolith Group, Xenogenesis and builds upon the exhibition.
Conceived as part of the Department of Xenogenesis (DXG); The Otolith Group present a day of rich discussion and reflections with invited international artists, writers, and thinkers. Audiences and guests are invited to come together to think about complicated notions of time, both metaphysical and planetary, and the temporal impact on the racial, politics, capitalism and technology.
On Friday 27 January, 6.00pm
(Live Streamed)
The event opens with a Virtual Keynote Address – The Unpayable Debt by Denise Ferreira Da Silva (Academic, Artist and Professor and Director of the Institute for Gender, Race, Sexuality, and Social Justice at the University of British Columbia) discusses her book that exposes how coloniality and raciality operate in the juridical, ethical, and symbolic systems that facilitate the expropriation of labor and extraction of land essential for the accumulation of Capital.
On Saturday 28 January, 11.00am – 5.30pm
IMMA Lecture Room
The in-person programme comprises stimulating Conversations, Presentations and Artists Talks. International speakers and contributions include: Learning from Ice project with Susan Schuppli (Director of the Centre for Research Architecture, Goldsmiths and Board Chair of Forensic Architecture); Technic and Magic with Federico Campagna (Italian philosopher, writer, podcaster); Teslaism: Economics at the End of the End of the Future with Bahar Noorizadeh (artist, writer and filmmaker, Goldsmith PHD candidate); The theoretical background of Manifold and The Image of Power projects with Erick Beltrán (recent participant of documenta fifteen);The genesis and work of the artist Suzanne Treister titled: TECHNOSHAMANIC SYSTEMS New Cosmological Models for Survival by Boris Ondreička (artist, curator) and others.
Guests will draw on exhibition themes and methodologies of The Otolith Group’s work that includes post-cinematic essayist films, videos and multiple screen installations, that address contemporary social and planetary issues, the disruptions of neo/colonialism, the ways humans have impacted the earth and the influence of new technology on consciousness.
Exhibition Details:
The Otolith Group: Xenogenesis, brings together a significant selection of works by The Otolith Group, the London-based artist collective founded in London in 2002 by Anjalika Sagar and Kodwo Eshun.
Featuring a cross-section of key works produced by The Otolith Group between 2011 and 2018, the exhibition reflects the artists’ ongoing commitment to creating what they think of as ‘a science fiction of the present’ through images, voices, sonic images, sounds, and performance.
Curated by Annie Fletcher, Director of IMMA.
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