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the archive

Preservation of the Future, Delhi, 2081 tries to remember what might have been for the research audience who themselves see their own story. Archivists around the world examined items in our present and determined their new past, all in one day, Saturday, March 2, 2081. Index Number: 0504 2107 Date of entry: 03/20/2061 Location: Exit […]



New Delhi TALK

Suman Sridhar’s first pieceThe host Mayanka Davemukherji: Ladies, welcome to the year 2081. We just experienced a performance by the musician and performance artist Suman Sridhar who will be back soon. Today is the 2nd of March 2081 Today we know. Today we celebrate. It is 100 years ago. Today is the anniversary of the […]







Contributors so far for the 2081 New Delhi TALK on March 2, 13:00

actress and yoga teacher Maya Krishna Rao + musician and producer Suman Sridhar + literature and theatre specialist Dr. Anita Cherian + Cybermohalla’s & Trickster City’s Shveta Sarda + the conversation architect Gurmeet S. Rai + artist Seline Baumgartner + artist Sheba Chhachhi + Amitesh Grover will organize a third performance in New Delhi + […]



Tel Aviv

What is lost, is knowledge. What is left, is a hole in our minds. It is, basically, still the old Warholian thing: From A to B (and back again). Just this time, in Tel Aviv, in 2081, it is a bit more complicated. We have to create an archive – not from nothing, but from […]



New Delhi

New Delhi is a city like an architect’s day dream – what Mahandra Raj constructed around 1981 could easily be seen from the future as a machine created to save world knowledge. We will have scientists, archeologists, medical experts, artists and mystics, all women, to explain: What happened, between 1981 and 2081? The event will […]



Johannesburg

Johannesburg end of May will be our second installment. It is a city suffused with so many layers of past and present that we will have to add only a few twists to bring out a truth long past. With the help of sociologist Sarah Nuttall and Lien Heidenreich of the Goethe Institute we will […]



Berlin

Berlin on March 24 and 25 is the first event in the futuristic historicism that we propose: A kick-off event into a future that is long past. There will be a one-day-conference with an all-female speakers cast including scientists, archeologists, medical experts, artists and mystics and a host of other women with insights in the […]



São Paulo

São Paulo in November will be our last installment for this year. (Beijing, Moscow, and Rome to follow in 2082) São Paulo is a modern city in every sense. Along the huge avenidas you see the fantastic concrete buildings by Oscar Niemeyer, João Batista Vilanova Artigas, or Lina Bo Bardi. But something is missing. Or […]





Contributors so far for the 2081 Johannesburg TALK on May 26, 14:00

sociologist Sarah Nuttall + musician Jill Richards + singer and actress Julia Hummer performes with Tolo, Ngakna and Faraih + performance artist Sindi Sampson + musicologist Juanita Orecchia PhD + creative collaborative platform Center for Historical Reenactments: Gabi Ngcobo and Sanele Manqele + architect Sarah Michels + Amitesh Grover will organize a live performance by […]





La Zona

27. April, 19:00 – Opening 28 April – 3 Juni 2012 Neue Gesellschaft für Bildende Kunst (NGBK) Oranienstr. 25 10999 Berlin http://www.ngbk.de The exhibition La Zona identifies different categories of ”zone”. The main reference is the zone in Andrei Tarkovsky’s film Stalker – a territory that is at once enclosed and abandoned, deadly and healing, […]









What happened 2081? All Then

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_va90HQO6QU Voice over written and performed by Chris Petit. Berlin March 24, Kunst-Werke Berlin Michael Althen or All Then, 2047 December, part of masked simian deity. Origins obscure. We don’t know, we really don’t know how these godheads came about. There is scant evidence that practices existed of organising material in sequence, and part of […]









Zoo City by Lauren Beukes

Gwyneth Jones The Guardian, Saturday 14 May 2011 This Arthur C Clarke award-winner, recommended by William Gibson, is the other side of cyberpunk In pagan/wiccan/shamanic circles the world over, it is agreed that you don’t choose your power animal, or familiar. The animal chooses you. However, human nature being what it is, shamanic/pagan/wiccan types inhabiting […]









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****** March 24, 10:30 Kunst-Werke *****

starts 10:30, at Kunst-Werke, with: South-African sociologist Sarah Nuttall * Mezzo-soprano Melanie Forgeron and pianist Katharina Sellheim* American theorist Victoria Nelson * Vera Lehndorff, performance artist from Berlin * Composer Annie Gosfield from New York* Portuguese artist Filipa César * Portuguese actress Joana Barrios* artist and fashion designer Ayzit Bostan from Munich * Landscape Architect Sandra […]









Anne Tismer / Julia Hummer

SILVIA ALBARELLA + ANNE TISMER NON-TUTTA [NICHT-VOLLKOMMENE]: http://www.sophiensaele.com/produktionen.php?IDstueck=944 Aufführungen /märz 09 10 11 / 20:00 UHR  ++++++++++++++ Plattenspieler – THOMAS MEINECKE und JULIA HUMMER: http://www.berlin.de/tickets/suche/detail.php?id=628715 HAU/ Hebbel am Ufer 2 /Hallesches Ufer 32, / 20.00 / Montag, 12.03.2012



New Contributors for Berlin:

Avery F. Gordon is Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Santa Barbara, Visiting Faculty Fellow at the Center for Research Architecture, Goldsmiths College, University of London and Keeper of the Hawthorne Archives. She is the author of Ghostly Matters: Haunting and the Sociological Imagination and works about captivity, war, and other forms of […]



“The Life of Christina the Astonishing, As Told By the Martyr Herself in the Year 2081 C.E.”

On March 24, Victoria Nelson will talk about: ”Taking as my motto the old proverb, “The future has an ancient heart,” I will describe the adventures of the twelfth-century Flemish saint Christina Mirabilis, celebrated for coming back from the dead with astounding superpowers, when she finds herself in a postapocalyptic North American setting 900 years […]







AUKTION 3000

Art Auction at Hamburger Bahnhof in Aid of Christoph Schlingensief’s Operndorf Afrika 8 March 2012, 8 pm (doors open at 7 pm) http://www.auktion3000.com/







Ghost Milk

Robert Macfarlane, The Guardian: Iain Sinclair’s struggles with the city of London Iain Sinclair has spent decades documenting the capital and its edgelands. Now he has launched a furious attack on the Olympic development project.   http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2011/jul/15/ghost-milk-iain-sinclair-olympics I was convinced that my earlier hunch was right: buried inside the oval of the stadium was a […]



The New Chronology

When we tried to get in touch with Christian Posthofen of Walther König Bookstore, we got an email back stating that Mister Posthofen will be back in office February 13. This was in German. The English version read: I will be back February 7. This is an important finding and relates to God Reloaded (see […]





++++ Berlin March 24 +++++

Speakers so far: South-African sociologist Sarah Nuttall * American theorist Victoria Nelson * Vera Lehndorff, performance artist from Berlin * Portuguese artist Filipa César * artist and fashion designer Ayzit Bostan from Munich * costume designer and opera director Aino Laberenz * professor for theoretical chemistry Barbara Kirchner * performance artist Anne Tismer * singer […]







Conflict is over

Another story of Filipa. When there is a disagreement in the family, her daughter says: Can’t we be all Nelson Mandela?



God reloaded

Constant signs of change: Filipa told us today the story of her daughter who attends the Nelson Mandela School in Berlin. Question: Do you believe in God? No, we believe in English.





Amitabha Mukhopadhyay’s Megalopolis One 2080, A.D.

A Science Fiction Tale of a Futuristic Society and Economy Welcome to Megalopolis One, a mega-city that has cutting-edge technology, a thriving and abundant ecosystem and planet, and responsible citizens who care about the greater good. Anirudh Mukhopahyay is the chief executive officer of Universal Developers, a world-renown corporation that is the technology giant of […]













Berlin

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