a 1-week workshop lead by Moe Ekapob & Camille Lacadee
following an idea by Francois Roche & Camille Lacadee
Anticipation is a form of critical paranoia where given or made up logics have to be pushed to their extremes. One by one. In order to be pursued, these logics are necessarily (to a certain degree) blind to each other.
But if anticipating is to have a broadly open mind on what the possible futures could be, (un)anticipating is admitting the role that abstruse fate and human (mis)behaviours also have in the play.
Amongst the iconic structures of Bangkok megalopolis are vestiges of previous disillusions. As our site for researches and speculations on the anterior futures to pass, we chose the Sathorn Unique, an abandoned child of the 1997 Asian Financial Crisis, the never-completed residential skyscraper located near Saphan Taksin.
Our workshop will explore the forms and organisations of plausible futures. Starting from researches on animals and humans behaviours in emergency situations, we will give shape to at least one scenario. The development of each scenario will include digital tools and fabrication. Our workshop will be hosted on and presented as a blog. This blog is opening now and could be used as a platform for further researches and ideas’ development.
References
films
docudramas Peter Watkins, La Jetee
Chris Marker (story of a post-nuclear war experiment in time travel = “to call past and future to the rescue of the present”), Waterworld Kevin Reynolds
(science fiction) novels
Distress Greg Egan
(The political intrigue surrounding a mid-twenty-first century physics conference, at which is to be presented a unified Theory of Everything. The action takes place on an artificial island called “Stateless”, which has earned the wrath of the world’s large biotech companies for its pilfering of their intellectual property.)
The World Inside Robert Silverberg (The novel is set on Earth in the year 2381, when the population of the planet has reached 75 billion people. Most of the action occurs in a massive three-kilometer high city-tower called Urban Monad 116. Life is now totally fulfilled and sustained within Urban Monads (Urbmons), mammoth thousand-floor skyscrapers arranged in “constellations”, where the shadow of one building does not fall upon another.)
science, thought experiments, and other
Uncertainty Principle Werner Heisenberg
Schrödinger’s cat Erwin Schrödinger’
The paranoiac-critical method Salvador Dali
stories, facts
Noah’s ark in the Museum of Jurassic Technology in Los Angeles, Exodus , Rats, spiders and cockroaches behaviors during last flood in Bangkok
gardens, places
Rock gardens in China (fake/anticipated erosion - cf Baltrusaitis Depraved Perspectives), Desert de Retz near Paris
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