Why can we imagine the ending of the world, yet not the ending of colonialism? We live the future of a past that is not our own.
It is a history of utopian fantasies and apocalyptic idealization.
It is a pathogenic global social order of imagined futures, built upon genocide, enslavement, ecocide, and total ruination. What conclusions are to be realized in a world constructed of bones and empty metaphors? A world of fetishized endings calculated amidst the collective fiction of virulent specters."
Rethinking the Apocalypse: An Indigenous Anti-Futurist Manifesto.
This fachmodule intends to germinate radical fabulations and proceses of self reflection through photography, image and archives utilizing tools for expanded photography as augmented reality or virtual reality in a hybrid class environment using the platform topia. Transisioning in between the knowledge and visions of the indigenous gaze, black futurism and decolonial thought this class proposes to reimagine a world from a postapocaliptic perspective while reading to and looking at black indigenous and people of color narratives. the class will propose students to reflect on their positioning in the world, utilizing some of the questions of the magnum lab on photography expanded: counter histories, we'll ask together: how does an image’s meaning and reception change according to its environment or geographic position? How can we look critically at the ways in which institutions, countries, cultures, religions, and others bring order to collections of images? What happens when images are positioned as layers on top of our lived environments? And how can we use strategies of participation and interactivity to engage with social issues or promote social justice?
This space is a fabulation of radical proposals for reparation, justice, human rights and counter histories. |
