Photography, Environment, Action

Radical Futurisms: Insurgent Universality, Solidarity, and Worlds-to-Come

With reference to three international examples of contemporary art—those of Thirza Jean Cuthand, The Otolith Group, and Black Quantum Futurism—this short talk discusses current modelings of radical futurisms and worlds-to-come that refuse surrender to capitalist realism. Where radical imagination meets radical praxis is in the material forces of solidarity, the political form of belonging, more than ever necessary today in the collective battle against international fascisms and global neoliberalisms. While acknowledging the bankruptcy of Eurocentric universalisms, this presentation defends approaches to insurgent political formations beyond identitarian fragmentation, including a political aesthetics of abolition—ultimately of racial and colonial capitalism.

Beyond the Numbers, a talk by Shahidul Alam at the online symposium Photography, Environment, Action, programmed by NEPN.

A talk by artist Michele Allen focussing on her project The Weight of Ants in the World and activism within her practice, delivered for the NEPN-produced symposium Photography, Environment, Action.

An Ecological Future for Photography, a talk by Edd Carr for the NEPN-produced Photography, Environment, Action Symposium.

A talk delivered at the NEPN produced Symposium Photography, Environment, Action.

A talk delivered by visual artist Sabina Sallis at the NEPN-produced online symposium Photography, Environment, Action.