The Friction of Fiction
speculative, performative meeting, ssesi.space, Brno, 2022
Speculation is a force that allows us to build our own narratives.
Speculation is political, has within it the potential for change and can be realized in different ways.
Speculation is performative.
Speculation gives a sense of agency.
Speculation bursts the meanings of terms and shatters the binary order.
Speculation is unlimited creative power.
Speculation allows to be yourself without fear of being judged.
The event included a workshop meeting where we read together excerpts from Octavia Butler’s book Dawn and reflected on how the past affects the present and how crucial it is to understand it in order to speculate about the future, while allowing ourselves to invent our own scenarios. To enter even more firmly into the narrative we have built, we used props to help fantasize the future.
A slight unplugging, distance and alienation can shed new light on familiar issues and problems. This kind of distant view can be very valuable, because it is often not immersed in a cluster of cultural expectations and can allow a lot of freedom. It is the friction of fiction with reality that sets our agency in motion.
Photo Michal Mitro
speculative, performative meeting, ssesi.space, Brno, 2022
Speculation is a force that allows us to build our own narratives.
Speculation is political, has within it the potential for change and can be realized in different ways.
Speculation is performative.
Speculation gives a sense of agency.
Speculation bursts the meanings of terms and shatters the binary order.
Speculation is unlimited creative power.
Speculation allows to be yourself without fear of being judged.
The event included a workshop meeting where we read together excerpts from Octavia Butler’s book Dawn and reflected on how the past affects the present and how crucial it is to understand it in order to speculate about the future, while allowing ourselves to invent our own scenarios. To enter even more firmly into the narrative we have built, we used props to help fantasize the future.
A slight unplugging, distance and alienation can shed new light on familiar issues and problems. This kind of distant view can be very valuable, because it is often not immersed in a cluster of cultural expectations and can allow a lot of freedom. It is the friction of fiction with reality that sets our agency in motion.
Photo Michal Mitro