Atropos: A Topology of Disaster
개요 _ A One-Day Event of Speculative Fiction, Collaborative Storytelling and Aesthetico-Ethical Creation
2013.8.10
OISE – University of Toronto
curated by
Department of Biological Flow
Atropos: one of the three Greek goddesses of fate and destiny, the eldest of the sisters, the one known as both inflexible and inevitable. It was Atropos who determined the end of life for each mortal by cutting their thread with a pair of shears. Mortality: one is alive and spinning a fibre at one moment, only to receive an untimely severance the next.
But this is not to gender the forthcoming disaster. Rather, we are interested in exploring the potential of the cut itself: its tempo, decisiveness, beauty and trauma — in short, its gesture. We approach disaster as a woven and folded tapestry of relations rather than as an accumulation of solitary threads, complicating the idea of a single fateful cut in the process. We suggest that while some cuts are more surgical and others more ragged, affirmative potentials may be found within each context.
Finally, we understand that the disaster is not some unknown future to come. It is already here — not forthcoming, but instead coming forth: the spectre of Atropos writ large over planetary destiny as an increasingly forceful precondition of the everyday. Collective imagination as gravitational force.
How does the artist or thinker respond as the blades slowly close?
A Tentative Chor(a)eo/graphy
1. Introducing oneself (from 2D to 3D).
2. Opening comments.
3. Left-eye/right-eye.
4. Blind reading.
5. Structures and flows.
6. Two storytimes.
7. Confessionals.
8. Two storytellings.
LUNCH.
9. Opening discussion.
10. Blind reading.
11. Structures and flows (affinity variation).
12. Toward technics of trauma.
13. Movement machines (with M. Alaoui).
14. Conclusion.
RETREAT TO PUB.
번역
정서연
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