[Nettime-ro] PHILIP - Project Art Centre - Dublin

[Cosmin Costinas <cosmincostinas2004@yahoo.com>]

PHILIP

Curated by Mai Abu ElDahab with Heman Chong and Leif
Magne Tangen
Project Art Centre, 39 East Essex Street, Temple Bar,
D2.

Workshop: November 2nd to 9th 2006 (invite only)
Exhibition: Opening Night November 10th at 6pm.
Exhibition runs to January 13th 2007
Public Talks: November 7th and 9th November at 4pm in
association with Critical Voices 3
Book Launch: January 13th at 6pm.

"The disintegration of the social and economic system
had been slow, gradual, and profound. It went so deep
that people lost faith in natural law itself. Nothing
seemed stable or fixed; the universe was a sliding
flux (?) all that remained was probable sequence: good
odds in a universe of random chance." - Solar Lottery,
1955.

Inspired by the worlds of Philip K. Dick, our project
brings together a group of international artists,
designers, critics and curators whose common language
in this instance is their fascination for alternative
realities, postulating the impossible and creating new
worldviews. Technology, ideology, architecture,
political construction and the prospects of global
ruin are at the heart of sci-fi narratives and at the
heart of Philip.

Philip is a science fiction writing workshop led by
Heman Chong (SG) and Leif Magne Tangen (NO) developed
out of their online project "Untitled (Excerpts #01)",
a collection of 103 submissions of dialogues taken
from sci-fi writings expressing an authoritarian
gesture available at www.philipville.com. 

The workshop participants - Mark Aerial Waller (UK),
Cosmin Costinas (RO), Rosemary Heather (CA/ DE),
Francis Mckee (IR), David Reinfurt (USA) and Steve
Rushton (UK/ NL) - will try to collectively write a
new novel envisioning the last week of the year 2019
in the life of a character that is desperately
fighting for time to save his world.

Philip is a series of public talks (organized in
cooperation with Critical Voices 3) by the workshop
participants on "being wrong about the present",
mushrooms and virtual reality, a science fiction
library, Benjamin Franklin and the Network Effect, the
emergence of a new society of humans as the result of
animal experiments, the recurring dream of the
destruction of our cities, and other phenomena.

November 7th at 4.00pm

Cosmin Costinas will make a general travel through the
recent and not so recent history of the need for
"other time" based fictions in the political culture
and will end up in some study cases that will
contradict his previous assumptions.

David Reinfurt will present some recent graphic design
work with Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
Center for Advanced Visual Studies. Along the way, he
will provide a cursory introduction to the MIT Science
Fiction Library, share ?A Brief Account of the
Library? by Benjamin Franklin and include some ideas
about archives, economies of scale and the Network
Effect.

Steve Rushton?s talk entitled ?Behave Yourself:
Reenactment and Early News Footage,? will discuss the
use of re-enactment in the early news reels, and how
the technology of the cinema helps us know not only
how to act but also how to feel.

November 9th in Association with Critical Voices 3 at
4.00pm

Mark Aerial Waller will show his film 'Reversion of
the Beast Folk,? a perversion of H.G. Wells novel 'The
Island of Dr Moreau', a story of the emergence of a
new society of human from the results of animal
experiments. Aerial Waller will discuss the film?s
relationship to the visionary films of Maya Derren and
her study of the voudoun ritual, and the transference
from cinema screen to the social position of the
viewer. 

Rosemary Heather takes Stanislaw Lem?s novel Solaris
(1961) as a stepping off point for her lecture on the
unknowable nature of reality. Her interest is in the
idea of being ?wrong about the present,? and how the
morass of phenomena and circumstances of contemporary
experience provide few clues as to how the future will
understand our present reality. 

Francis McKee will give a short illustrated lecture
entitled ?On Mushroom and Machines? investigating
mushrooms and virtual reality, along the way looking
at various aspects of his own practice.

Philip is an exhibition consisting of an ongoing
programme of shorts by Dara Birnbaum, Juha van Ingen,
Tina Keane, George Melies, Jasper Morello, Otolith
Group and Semiconductor and screenings of Samuel
Beckett?s ?Film? every Saturday at 3.00pm.

November 10th: You are invited to come to opening at
6.00pm introduced by Heman Chong and Leif Magne Tangen

Philip is a new limited edition novel, produced at the
Just-in-Time workshop by Dexter-Sinister, New York and
is being launched at the conclusion of the project.

Project Arts Centre
39 East Essex Street, Temple Bar, Dublin 2. Tel: 353 1
881 9613/14 www.project.ie



 
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