Critical Futures Symposium

Critical Futures is a cross-disciplinary programme that explores how archives can be reclaimed as tools for resistance and imagination through visual cultures and sound. Guided conversations, workshops, and collective experiments enable participants to ask: who gets remembered, who is erased, and what radical futures can we build together?

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Section 1: Visual and Literary Cultures 13.00 - 17.00

SCREENING ON LOOP: Zach Blas, Contra-Internet: Inversion Practices (2015-16)

DROP IN WORKSHOP: Machina Kollective, “Objects of Resistance”

•SCREENING & DISCUSSION: Black Futures Visual Essay short, curated screening of BLKNWS by Kahlil Joseph, convo facilitated by TRIBE INC.

•DISCUSSION: SWANA Visual Culture and Arab Futurisms with Nazlee Radboy, Sophia Al Maria, and Kasra Jalilipour

•WORKSHOP: Speculative Writing Workshop with Sonji Shah and Ghiwa Sayegh (Kohl Journal)

SECTION 2: Sound 18.15- 22.30

•TALK: Music as Living archives of Solidarity: Belfast to Palestine Jessie Lee Rubin and Séamus Óg

•DISCUSSION: Grime Futures with M.I.C. and Tice Cin

•WORKSHOP: Solidarity Sound Lab & Live-Looping Experimentation with Hala Chekri

•21:50 - 22:20 Afro-futurist Grounding Ritual by TRIBE INC.

•22.30-2.30 DJ sets