Zero Emissions by 2099 at Showroom MAMA, curated by Mary Ponomareva with a scenography by Rosalie Wammes.
Zero Emissions by 2099 is an immersive, multi-sensory journey, exploring the entanglements between technology, ideology and popular culture, encouraging visitors to examine the seemingly unavoidable role of technology and ideology in shaping the future.
This exhibition will contain radical future propositions in the form of installations, video works, writings and interactive AI generated art.
Sci Fi Lab Café
Year 1986. I found the Sci-fi Lab Cafe by the smell of algae. Waves of wistful nostalgia wash over me as I enter the cafe seeking clues how to revive bright future visions for the present? How can we think beyond technocentrism and deceptive extractionism and make the future inhabitable and abundant for all living and artificial beings?
Future in ICU
Year 2000. With a pervasive sense of disorientation, failed expectations and hopelessness I undergo an emergency treatment at the Future in ICU.
How can we deal with uncertainty, restore our senses and heal collective world wounds?
AI Temple
Year 2040. In a silent sanctuary a gentle whisper wakes me up. “Zero Emissions… one breath at a time” is repeated endlessly as a mantra. The whisper insists that I partake in The AI Temple’s sacred rituals to rediscover my personal agency over the future. The whisper continues: “Be brave enough to open Pandora’s box of pre-emptive algorithmic safety and absolute surveillance.” I close my eyes and allow my imagination to travel beyond the dystopia-utopia binary.
Curated by Mary Ponomareva
Participating artists: Chris Kore, Sofia Crespo x Entangled Others, Cristal De La Cruz, Nazanin Karimi and Liminal Vision. Scenography by Rosalie Wammes Olfactory works by Spyros Drosopoulos Virtual scenography by Louisa Teichmann and Noemi Biro Online platform by Babak Vandad
Terrain at Het HEM residency
