V&A Digital Futures: Acting Out

The White Building
Tue 23 Feb, 6.30 - 8pm
FREE

Acting Out will explore the potential of performance to dream the future into presence, discussing how speculative actions can bring unmanifested realities into being. V&A Digital Futures is a regular open platform for displaying and discussing work by researchers, artists, and other professionals working with art, technology, design, science and beyond.

Performance is a productive tool. It has the power to shape reality.

In an ever-changing playground for the ego our behaviours are scripted, our actions weighed under new tools we carry, directed forward under the guise of progress.

The performative act begins at the root of thinking: each time the previously un­thought is ossified into thought, a new reality enters the field of potential experience. Beginning with the idea of performance as a mode of manufacture, we will explore various methods deployedby artists, considering ways, in which performance can produce new configurations across economic, geopolitical and digital domains. By constructing new relationships between disconnected vectors, we will discuss how these speculative actions can bring unmanifested realities into being. In this sense, performance is a tool to enact our social, ecological and material imaginations. It gives us a way to dream the future into being.

Speakers:
Alex Eisenberg
Jennifer Lyn Morone
Jeremy Hutchison
Liv Wynter
Tuur van Balen
 
Chair:
Maria X
 
V&A Digital Futures is a regular open platform for displaying and discussing work by researchers, artists, and other professionals working with art, technology, design, science and beyond.