"Speculative fiction: stories whose objective is to explore, to discover, to learn, by means of projection, extrapolation, analogue, hypothesis-and-paper-experimentation, something about the nature of the universe, of man, or 'reality." (Judith Merill)

Something has happened. As if it were not only environmental issues and virtual spaces that emerge today, but also materials and objects themselves, so as diverse subjectivities and new narratives. Key momentum in this development resides in a peculiar relationiship between theory and fiction; or even between philosophy and art in general.

We need to orientate ourselves within a textual landscape populated by many genres, attitudes and concepts (sci-fi, speculative fiction, theory-fiction, speculative realism …); we do not necessarily need to define these tendencies, rather we should try to understand the very practice or agency that they cover. What does it mean to speculate, to create theories or fictions?

Program conceived for the INI Gallery aims at experimenting with these possibilities. Not only within a series of discussions, presentations, opening or screening, but also through the very activity of reading and writing we will try to scaffold theories and narratives, times and spaces, alternative presents or futures.

“Light grief on the face

Deep laughter in the heart”

(Jaroslav Seifert)

PROGRAM:

25.5. (18:00) skypetalk Nick Land (EN) // (17:30) čtení – Phyl-Undhu, Abstract Horror - Nick Land (EN)

2.6. (19:00) výstava/prezentace studentu UMPRUM (v rámci akce Máme otevřeno) // (18:30) čtení – Čtení jako pytlačení – Michel de Certeau

10.6. (19:00) Paul Chaney – Dark ecology (EN) // (18:30) čtení – Molecular Red – McKenzie Wark (EN)

21.6. (19:00) Iveta Čermáková // (18:30) čtení

22.6. (13:00) Quality TV marathon // (12:30) čtení – Cyclonopedia - Reza Negarestani

23.6. (19:00) Dita Malečková – Patterns recognition Kupka // (18:30) čtení – Tisíc Plošin – Gilles Deleuze + Mapa a Teritorium – Michel Houllebecq + On exactitude – Jorge Luis Borges