Un/Settled Futurities: Diasporic Re/Imaginaries

Curated by: Marina Gržinić (Ljubljana) and Elisa R. Linn (Berlin) with the participation of Asma Aiad, Frau Diamanda / Héctor Acuña with Pol Comelles, Marina Gržinić with Aina Šmid, Maša Guštin featuring Yevgeny Yufit (1961–2016), Anahita Neghabat, and Elisa R. Linn featuring Counter-Public Spheres in the German Democratic Republic (GDR). 

The new artistic directors of Kunstverein Pforzheim im Reuchlinhaus, Janusz Czech and Daria Schroth, have opened a large-scale international group exhibition titled Un/Settled Futurities: Diasporic Re/Imaginaries, an interdisciplinary exhibition exploring the complexities of identity, survival strategies, and modes of existence through the lenses of diaspora, memory, and futurity. The exhibition also addresses radical historical interventions in art and civil society, as well as exclusions and closures produced by imperial-colonial security regimes, including travesti uprisings, political mimes, and insurgent politics.

Kunstverein Pforzheim im Reuchlinhaus, in cooperation with A.K.T;—a space for societal discourse and an interdisciplinary laboratory for the future that engages with current sociopolitical questions—has launched an accompanying program within the exhibition titled Encountering Futures: Lectures, Conversations, and Reflections. Conceived in collaboration with Marina Gržinić and Elisa R. Linn, Encountering Futures serves as an active, performative space for knowledge production, collective thinking, and the articulation of possible futures.

Artists and theorists together examine how artistic and theoretical practices insist on futurity as a contested and politically charged demand. Participating speakers include Asma Aiad, Elisa R. Linn, Frau Diamanda / Héctor Acuña, Pol Comelles, Marina Gržinić, Maša Guštin, Silke Helmerdig, and Klaus Theweleit. The program is moderated by Janusz Czech and Daria Schroth.