About the lecture

This talk explores the intersections of performance and speculation as tools for advancing post-capitalist paradigms such as degrowth and the commons, at both local and translocal levels. How can these approaches be leveraged to embody radical alternatives? And how might they intervene in the dominant narratives of the future, which are shaped by those with reality-bending power? Drawing on projects such as the game show Game-Changers: The Game, the living laboratory Future 14B, and the art project The Department for Parallel Economic World(ing)s, among other case studies, we will explore how worldbuilding is emerging across movements – from the resurgence of LARPs and board games to speculative fiction and contemporary art. Through this lens, we will critically explore what new modes and theories of social change these practices offer, and their untapped potential for fostering decentralised “imagination infrastructures” capable of challenging capitalist realism.

The lecture will be held in English.

About Futurizmi cycle

The event series FUTURIZMI brings together artists, researchers, and practitioners who explore possible realities through performance and play.
Between April and May, Rok Kranjc, Alicja Rogalska, and the FoAM collective – Maja Kuzmanović, Nik Gaffney, and Kate Rich – will present a series of lectures addressing guerrilla economic futurisms, post-fossil rituals, and business as a site of experimentation.

More about Futurizmi: 

Lecture / Lecture-performance series
April 3 – Rok Kranjc: How to Take Over Reality with Collective Imagination
May 15 – Alicja Rogalska
May 29 – FoAM – Maja Kuzmanović, Nik Gaffney & Kate Rich

The lectures will be held in English.