postgraduate program, research center
2017 BLOCK I
1 January-31 March 2017
2017 POST-GRADUATE PROGRAM AND RESEARCH PROJECTS SUMMARY
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TROUBLE ON RADIO TRITON_ ((((((( changing (the) world (s) ))))))
CURATED BY PIERRE RUBIO
9 January-30 April 2017
Which alternative worlds do our researches/practices contain and can immanently produce? How do we relate to the future via artistic-research? As artists, do we through our researches contribute to changes in contemporary culture? And if yes, then which cultures do our researches produce?
Trouble on Radio Triton is a metaphoric multipolar dispositive. A discursive and practice-based ‘lure for feeling’ and thinking. An operative alibi strategically using ‘if’s’, ‘what if’s’, ‘as if’s’ to exercise critique and imagine alternatives.
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Book Club #1 COGNITIVE ESTRANGEMENT
19 January 2017 / a.pass
BOOK CLUB SERIES / Sol Archer
Data and Geordi as Holmes and Watson, Star Trek: The Next Generation
Starting with Darko Suvin's ideas of Cognitive Estrangement, we will look at some of the mechanisms and functions of science fiction, and consider how the imagining of alternative realities operates is a critical gesture with which to view consensus reality
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Christian Hansen F.Y.R.
23 January-6 February 2017 / a.pass
Foley Your Research
How does/could my research sound like?
Does your research have a direct auditory quality and content or would you like/need to create a fictional soundscape to give it a sound?
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Book Club #2 Black Atlantic & Speculative Fiction
26 January 2017
Book Club Series
Revisiting Paul Gilroy's Black Atlantic in relation with afro-american SF and in particular Octavia Butler's.
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Book Clubs #3 & #4 Situated Knowledge
2-9 February 2017 / a.pass
Book Club Series / Sina Seifee
Reading Sessions of Donna Haraway's essay 'Situated Knowledges: The Science Question in Feminism and the Privilege of Partial Perspective'.
This reading focuses on politics and epistemologies of location, positioning, and situating in our power-sensitive conversations, and what does it mean to become accountable and responsible for one's own noninnocent translations.
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Myriam Van Imschoot TELESCOPING THE INTERVIEW
7-10 February 2017
three day intensive
Myriam Van Imschoot will pass on her discoveries within her interest in the interview, the doors that led over time to appreciating speech for what it offers beyond meaning: significant aberrations, iterations, flux and rupture, modulation, and not in the least, different alterations of subjectivity. This three day intensive will combine artist talk, screenings, voice improvisations, score explorations, and other tele-scopic incursions into artistic practice and research.
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Book Club #5 Sacred Drift, a journey into political consciousness of sound
16 February 2017 / a.pass
Book Club Series / Peggy Pierrot
George Clinton emerges from Parliament-Funkadelic's Mothership on June 4, 1977, at the Coliseum in Los Angeles
Is there something to hear between the 0 and the 1 of digitized compressed music? Is there something to de-cypher in our coded Nyabinghi drums? What is the message hidden between themes, rythms, intonations, improvisations, the samples, the drum, the bass, the cuts and the pastes? and what kind of mental space or imaginary frame allowed/constrained the emergence of a futuristic post-modern culture within the Black Atlantic ?
We’ll build or we’ll destroy.
We’ll learn about the Know-Ledge.
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YOU CALL THIS PROGRESS?! 2/4
16 February 2017 / a.pass
(Revisiting SF Cinema) curated by Dehens & Kaplunova
YOU CALL THIS PROGRESS!? is a series of screenings revisting SF-Cinema with a focus
on 'other' (non-)western SF. It aims to look critically at the genre as well as to reconsider
the potential of the genre to look critically. The series includes films and shorts from the
trenches of Soviet SF, the esoteric SF of Unarius, old, new and queer interpretations of SF,
early works by Black Audio Film Collective, an opening to Russian cosmism, works by
Chris Kraus, early Cronenberg, something called Betaville, trailers and more.
NO SUCH THING AS GRAVITY!
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Alice Chauchat worlding from this world
27 February-3 March 2017 / a.pass
this is not wishful thinking, it is speculating utopia from what is already there
Rather than lamenting the scarcity of agreeable situations in our present, we will wilfully engage in expanding through the force of our imagination these maybe fragile, uncertain, easily disposable snippets of communal life which are also part of the world as we know it. Taking these as sufficient evidence for the existence of a world we want to inhabit, we will turn the logic of exception into a logic of rule, and run the risk of building monstrous worlds. At least these might be differently interesting monstrosities.
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YOU CALL THIS PROGRESS?! 3/4
6 March 2017
(Revisiting SF Cinema) curated by Dehens & Kaplunova
YOU CALL THIS PROGRESS!? is a series of screenings revisting SF-Cinema with a focus
on 'other' (non-)western SF. It aims to look critically at the genre as well as to reconsider
the potential of the genre to look critically. The series includes films and shorts from the
trenches of Soviet SF, the esoteric SF of Unarius, old, new and queer interpretations of SF,
early works by Black Audio Film Collective, an opening to Russian cosmism, works by
Chris Kraus, early Cronenberg, something called Betaville, trailers and more. NO SUCH THING AS GRAVITY!
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LAST ANGEL OF HISTORY
8 March 2017 / a.pass
screening and presentation by Dr EDWARD GEORGE
The influential Black Audio Film Collective crafted this experimental blend of sci-fi parable and essay film, which also serves as an essential primer on the aesthetics and dynamics of contemporary Afrofuturism. Interviews with esteemed musicians, writers, and cultural critics are interwoven with the fictional story of the “data thief,” who must travel through time and space in search of the code that holds the key to his future. Dr Edward George, the writer, researcher, presenter of this ground breaking science fiction documentary, will present and discuss the film and its themes of music, Diaspora, science fiction, and its engagement with Afro futurism.
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Book Club #6 A STITCHED AND SPLIT HOSPITALITY
9 March 2017 / a.pass
Book Club Series / Laurence Rassel
The Laurence Rassel Show
The a.pass Book Club welcomes “what if” expert-consultant Laurence Rassel. Long ago she diagnosed the vacuity of artistic practices when its formats of knowledge-production are not ‘situated’ in an ecology of art that encompasses social and psychological factors. Paradoxically she considers fiction, science-fiction, narratives and role plays as paramount tools to achieve that goal. Laurence Rassel will address the notion of ‘Radical Hospitality’ by revisiting Stitch and Split, and some of the curatorial operating principles and practices she developed in Fundació Antoni Tàpies in Barcelona as an engaged feminist curator.
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Book Club #7 Politics of Speculative fabulation
10 March 2017 / a.pass
Book Club Series / Fabrizio Terranova
Dr Marboeuf
"We need new types of narratives and techniques. Stories that reclaim the earth and the commons that capitalism has stolen from us. Stories that invite us to take up and create trans-species sensitivities, trans-matters vitalities and trans-cerebral unrests. And it’s not enough imagining them, these stories have to be made and experienced." In this talk/reading session, Fabrizio Terranova will revisit a recent text by Donna Haraway, “Sympoiesis - Symbiogenesis and the Lively Arts of Staying with the Trouble” and present the different projects he is involved in where activism, speculative fiction and pedagogy merge.
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Book club #7bis An Animal Escape Case
10 March 2017 / a.pass
Book club series special event / Sina Seifee
Tessa Farmer - 2010 A Darker Shade of Grey
The essay-performance plays with some standards of cross-species identification according to an Indo-Iranian mode of subjectivity and my own animal-findings in contemporary Tehran. We zoom in what the idea of "wilderness" withholds in technologically mediated stories and rumors that populate domestic life and quotidian of middle ages of this neighborhood. Through fairy-tale associations the lecture investigates operative non-understandings in old and new threads of cosmology that formulate reciprocity and being-with of the mediated non-humanity and investigates the cases of failed collaboration between species.
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Helena Dietrich The Tea Party
14-15 March 2017 / a.pass
in search for an elastic alien self
We will use clothing like a pharmakon: what pollutes us can also clean us! By triggering the optical unconscious we can transform sensuously a commoditised visual world into a psychological cleansing process from cultural inherited aesthetics. Acknowledging the ability of three-dimensional images and materials as determinations of our perception of self is already an attempt to empower ourselves at changing our/the reality. Not only in words but also in materialising this reality into visible and tangible new object-beings.
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BOOK CLUB #8 ACCELERA.PASS
16 March 2017 / a.pass
Book Club Series / Michiel Vandevelde & Wouter De Raeve curated by Sébastien Hendrickx
Malign Velocities
In 2013 the Accelerationist Manifesto by Nick Srnicek and Alex Williams emerged, aiming to question the traditional Left and to demarcate a renewed relation with capitalism, while its provocative aura generated a whirlwind of pros and cons. During this seminar we will not merely read excerpts of the manifesto. By means of a genealogy of the concept, we'll try to frame this tendency within the larger philosophical evolutions of the past decennia and nuance its “accelerating” characteristic.
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Book Club #9 Language as Magic and the Language of Things
17 March 2017 / a.pass
Book Club Series / Caroline Godart & Marialena Marouda
Walter Benjamin in the National Library in Paris, 1937, taken by Gisèle Freund © bpk | IMEC, Fonds MCC | Gisèle Freund
In the essay “On Language as Such and on the Language of Man” Benjamin proposes a language metaphysics that extends to every thing. Every thing has a language: objects, animals, human beings but also immaterial things, like the Arts or Technology. For Benjamin language is therefore a medium going very much beyond human language and the communication through words. One could say language is the way in which some thing – indeed every thing – communicates itself to the world.
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YOU CALL THIS PROGRESS ?! 4/4
20 March 2017 / a.pass
(revisiting SF Cinema) curated by Dehens & Kaplunova
YOU CALL THIS PROGRESS!? is a series of screenings revisting SF-Cinema with a focus
on 'other' (non-)western SF. It aims to look critically at the genre as well as to reconsider
the potential of the genre to look critically. The series includes films and shorts from the
trenches of Soviet SF, the esoteric SF of Unarius, old, new and queer interpretations of SF,
early works by Black Audio Film Collective, an opening to Russian cosmism, works by
Chris Kraus, early Cronenberg, something called Betaville, trailers and more.
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RRadio Triton Data Retrieval Interface
1 July 2018 / online: https://rradiotriton.apass.be
frontispiece of RRadio Triton Data Retrieval Interface
https://rradiotriton.apass.be
RRadio Triton is an experimental radio project aiming at producing collective audio documents gathered in and disseminated by the ad hoc fictional radio label/station, recording, editing, sampling, remixing and releasing audio and soundscapes. The audio publications of RRadio Triton are the recomposition of the outcomes of the voluntary contributions from all the actors of the 2017 a.pass seminar, BLOCK 17/I TROUBLE ON RADIO TRITON_ ((((((( CHANGING (THE) WORLD (S) )))))) curated by Pierre Rubio.
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by OFFoff, a.pass and Domes FM Broadcasting RRadio Triton
broadcast
25-26 January 2019 / Kunsthal, Ghent
“Tritonia festiva © weiweigao”
During the opening weekend of Kunsthal,Ghent, ArtCinema OFFoff puts up a broadcast on Domes FM around RRadio Triton, a collective and experimental research project produced by a.pass. The broadcast circles around relations between artistic research and speculative fictions. What kinds of futures do artistic research practices imagine? Which fictions are needed? And what voices do we need to bring those fictions up?
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RRadio Triton
1 July 2019 / online: https://rradiotriton.apass.be/
audio publication
Tritonia Festiva_Photo Steve Lonhart_NOAA_MBNMS
In 2019 RRadio Triton sets out to dream of operating like a time machine carrying its protagonists through time back to events and questions processed and produced during Trouble on Radio Triton ((((((( changing (the) world (s) )))))) -a seminar held by a.pass in 2017- and returning them as new narrators. RRadio Triton is a collective and experimental, digital audio project aimed at producing and publishing radio and sound documents. The ad hoc fictional radio station records, edits, samples, remixes and releases pieces of audiowork into the wireless atmospheric fabric and exists in between a digital sound-archive, ongoing conversations that originated at the 2017 seminar and live-appearances at events.
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