It´s been a long journey. My dear friend Adriano began working on this long-term research project many years ago, its path long and tortuous, culminating on the sudden and malicious wipe-out of mf v.1. Yet the question that drives memoriafutura, deep and complex in its implications yet very simple and direct in its formulation, is so relevant that it will endure pretty much anything:

What images should survive the passing of Time?

In an era of visual overabundance, which visual references do we believe should become tomorrow´s archeological findings?

Visit the resurrected memoriafutura in its early days. It will grow, literally and symbolically. This much I know.

 

Bigger, better, and more. And still free, no reservations required; just show up.

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coming very soon to futureplaces.org: full program.

register for workshops here.

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A cycle of conferences on Arts, Ideas and the Academy. I will be contributing to the Nov.2nd session, and will be speaking on the paradigm shift currently taking place in the Arts – drifting away from the notion that the artist is singular, immune, eccentric… and gradually incorporating notions of participation and outcome. Full program here.

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The inauguration of the KREV consulate last Saturday – a great time was had by all.

Update:

Concert extract (unlearning all languages) here. King Michael´s speech here.

Further footage here.

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On to Stories of Art and Science: register until tomorrow noon. In the words of Professor Söderqvist: a tantalizing program. Not to be missed!

Inauguration of the KREV Consulate @ Teatro Maria Matos.

Featuring

King Carl Michael Von Hausswolff

Ambassador Michael Harding

Ambassador Heitor Alvelos

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Diplomatic Ceremony featuring a Recital, a Royal Banquet, and the nomination of the Minister of Bankrupt Shopping Malls.

Free. As in “no money”. But you need to bring an edible contribution to the Banquet. No, really.

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Check out Hiromi Ishikawa´s dance piece The Other Side. Soundtrack, the first eight minutes, by yours truly (Forensics-Language-Sweat Chambers, a piece commissioned by the Gulbenkian Foundation in 2003). More info here and here.

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START!KREV anthem #6 7″single: Ash 7.8. Mixes and sleeve photography by yours truly. Come to the launch at FuturePlaces. Free beer too. We´re hoping.

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So this is where the situationist slogan lives in 2009. Not bad, all things considered – dreamy ideology becomes social infrastructure. There is something about Paris that is slowly becoming very, very right – after a time where France seemed out of time, its sense of locality and casual cultural fabric suddenly seem spot on.

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Salut de Paris!

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We lose ourselves in so many narratives
Chase rainbows, fly kites
woven through years of longing and craving
and plain need, fuzzy as it may be
A return to a forgiving womb of sorts,
a masculine embrace redeeming all.

We dream, believe, trust, dissolve
Only to succumb in the narrative of another
where inevitably we were always someone else
where we were never but a ghost
of inscrutable expectations
lost in subtle translations.

May we then be some kind of god in our forgiveness
Alien even to ourselves in our rationality
Howling animals in our scars
Human in our own healing
Angels in the healing we will offer to others.

For D.