Tobias Rees "Notes on Nature (Thinking the Human in Terms of the Non-Human)"
RIBOCA
For Tobias Rees, humans learn to set themselves apart from nature at the turn from the sixteenth to the seventeenth century. Interested in how categories that order knowledge mutate over time, Rees writes about how the real is organized by modern templates for culture, society and technology.
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Jackie Wang "Oceanic Feeling and Communist Affect"
RIBOCA
For Jackie Wang, dreams are modes of thinking that do not capitulate to reality and everyday scenes of unjustness. Wang has been exploring different implications of oceanic feeling as well as the enmeshment of the psychoanalysis of mysticism and psychoanalytic debates about religion. Video talk with subtitles (EN, LV, RU): http://bit.ly/JackieWangtalk
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Tim Ingold "The Young, The Old And The Generation Of Now"
RIBOCA
For Tim Ingold, imagining dissolves the boundaries between future and past. In his writings, imagination cannot be independent from perception and memory. Against the idea that finite futures are coming directly at us, Ingold locates imagination as an activity at the cusp of the continual creation of our world.
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Astrida Neimanis "We Are All at Sea"
RIBOCA
For Astrida Neimanis, water facilitates the gestation of all life between human and non-human as well as elemental and geophysical beings. Neimanis’ feminist writings call for a planetary ‘hydro-commons’, a shift in attention towards bodies of water and new political paradigm that extends beyond the human. Watch the video talk with subtitles (EN, LV, RU): https://bit.ly/AstridaNeimanisTalk
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Federico Campagna "The End of the World(s)"
RIBOCA
For Federico Campagna, reality varies with each era, civilization and new world, in turn shaping what is possible to do, think and imagine. In the talk, Campagna explores the challenges facing cultural producers standing at the threshold between different worlds and ages. Watch the video talk with subtitles: https://bit.ly/FedericoCampagnaTalk
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CAConrad "(Soma)tic Poetry Rituals"
RIBOCA
How can we transform the contemporary moment, one of significant shifts in ideas, systems and ways of being, into a time of renewal? For CAConrad poetry and ritual are two technologies that investigate the space between body and spirit. In this reading and talk, CA discusses how to maintain creative space in our lives. Watch the video talk with subtitles (EN, LV, RU): https://bit.ly/CAConradTalk
info_outlineFor Jackie Wang, dreams are modes of thinking that do not capitulate to reality and everyday scenes of unjustness. Interested in the desire for life and mental structures that cannot be contained, Wang has been exploring the creative, social, and political implications of oceanic feeling as well as the enmeshment of the psychoanalysis of mysticism and psychoanalytic debates about religion. Video talk with subtitles (EN, LV, RU): http://bit.ly/JackieWangtalk
RIBOCA2 Public programmes Associate Curator - Sofia Lemos
Podcast made in collaboration with tirkultura.net, original music by Jackie Wang.