EVENT: AUX FUTURS ANCESTRAUX (OCTOBER 14 2023 - JANUARY 21 2024, BOUROGNE, FRANCE)
Aux futurs ancestraux
Rye de la Varonne
90140 Bourogne, France
Curated by Isabelle Arvers, Aux futurs ancestraux adopts a decolonial perspective, showcasing art and games from outside the Western canon to expand representations, narratives and cosmologies. Specifically, the exhibition seeks to decolonize imaginations and co-create narratives drawing from oral traditions, indigenous knowledge and video game worlds.
press release
“When we say that the future is ancestral, it has more to do with DNA than genealogy. It’s worldview: it’s the ability to go back to an event that created the world and is alive in you. We want a constant creation of everything and ourselves. This is what happens in DNA, the code handed down by our ancestors. This can reintroduce us to the constellation of life within the planet, where we stop being specialists and realize that we have a common origin”. Ailton Krenak, philosopher and leader of the Brazilian indigenous Krenak movement and author of the book Futuro Ancestral en 2021
The global games market is still dominated by Europe, the United States and Japan.The exhibition Aux futurs ancestraux adopts a decolonial perspective on art and games in order to echo works conceived on the periphery of this global and globalizing culture. Aux futurs ancestraux immerses us in other types of representations, cities, landscapes, narratives and cosmogonies, conceived and expressed in other languages, and seeks to decolonize our imaginary through the co-construction of narratives born of the encounter between oral tradition, endogenous knowledge and the virtual universes of video games.
This necessary dialogue between these different modes of knowledge requires a paradigm shift. Science and human thought are no longer the only sources of knowledge; it is now possible to think of knowledge “beyond the human” (Eduardo Kohn). “This implies that nature thinks, that animals think, and that non-humans can teach us techniques and knowledge, by changing our perspective. (Viveiro de Castro).
Between photo installations, drawing, performance, video installations, immersive, interactive and video game, an exhibition that invites us to reconnect with what connects us to our ancestral futures: the living.
Featured artists and artworks
High in the Sky and Beneath the Stars, Laura Palavecino, (AR), interactive installation
Laidaxai, Daniela Fernandez, (AR) video game
Paramo, Eulalia De Valdenebro Cajiao, (CO), Installation drawings video
Water Divinity, Henri Tauliaut (Martinique), Video game
Atuel, Matajuegos, (ARG), Video game
Coca para comer, Aniara Rodado, (CO), Installation, Performance
Epiculus Garden, Tania Fraga, (BR), Video Installation
Liquid Forest, Isabelle Arvers (FR) Machinima Gaël Manangou, Sound creation (RDC)
Spectographie, VR film & installation : Carole Chausset Myriam Mihindou &Annie-Flore Batchiellilys, Daniely Francisque, Florence boyer / cie Artmayage
eFa, interactive installation by Technorisha Collective: Livia Diniz, Benjamin Abras, Bruno Creuzet, Michel Petris, Henri Tauliaut, M’vwâma Diop, Annabel Gueredrat, Isabelle Arvers.
La Puissance des arbres, vidéo portaits directed by Isabelle Arvers, Livia Diniz, Bruno Qual
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