Agora #5: The Things We Did Next - Demonstration and discussion

Connecting people and organizations who mobilize the resources of the imaginary to explore alternative futures.

Plurality University Network

As part of Narratopias Agora sessions, David Pledger &amp; Alex Kelly will gather their Assembly for the Future.

Assembly for the Future is a series of participatory, digital gatherings in which the public create new visions for futures that may be realistic, idealistic or utterly fanciful.If you’re overwhelmed by the present and you can’t imagine what’s next, then we invite you to collectively imagine better worlds. Working within an assembly of thinkers, artists and provocateurs, you are invited to become protagonists, to put your imagination at the service of creating other, better, futures to come in the era of climates changed.To demonstrate the Assembly for the Future, David Pledger &amp; Alex Kelly from <a href="https://www.thethingswedidnext.org/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">The Things We Did Next</a> (Australia) present a provocation from 2029 that is made up of futures generated across the project by over 45 collaborators. After the provocation, David and Alex will step through the dramaturgy and curation behind the Assembly and welcome discussion of and about the practice. The event is online and will last for 1h30 hours, from 12-1:30pm CEST. ----Alex KellyAlex is an organiser and artist committed to social and climate justice based on Dja Dja Wurrung Country, ‘Australia’. Alex has worked in film, theatre, communications and troublemaking in many forms. This includes taking part in blockades from Jabiluka in Australia to la zad in France, collaborating on the Indigenous Language &amp; theatre project, Ngapartji Ngapartji, and curating the Something Somewhere Film Festival. As a Producer, Director &amp; Impact Producer, Alex has worked on documentary films including Queen of the Desert, THE ISLAND, Island of the Hungry Ghosts, In My Blood It Runs &amp; This Changes Everything. Alex is currently focused on The Things We Did Next, a multiplatform speculative futures &amp; climate change collaboration. Through practising the art of imagination, Alex hopes to strengthen our ability to tackle the complex challenges we face by imagining more just futures.David PledgerDavid is an award-winning contemporary artist, curator, cultural commentator and thinker working within and between the performing, visual and media arts. He has created interactive media, television documentaries, live performances, site-specific festivals, locative installations and discursive events for broadcasters, theatres, galleries, arts centres, museums and public sites in the context of arts and film festivals, visual arts and performance programs in Australia, Asia and Europe. Awarded the Sidney Myer Performing Arts Award and the Kenneth Myer Performing Arts Medal for his work as a director, actor and teacher, he has received fellowships from the Churchill Memorial Trust, the Australia-Korea Foundation, Asialink and numerous production grants from local, state, federal and international arts agencies for his creations, touring, residency and pedagogy. A prolific writer, his play Blowback was short-listed for the Louis Esson Prize for Drama (Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards) as was his screenplay for the interactive film Eavesdrop for the Inaugural New Media Writing Award (AWGIEs). His 2013 Platform Paper, Re-Valuing the Artist in the New World Order, is in a second print-run. He is Artistic Director of not yet it’s difficult (NYID), one of Australia’s seminal interdisciplinary arts companies. He lives on the lands of the Boon wurrung People of the Kulin Nation.

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