5. JUNE 5

MAGICAL REALISM (at WIELS)

What did you make of the video about the weed bust, with the stuffed bear running through the woods in stop motion on the barbie TV? How were those things related to each other, or were they?

Was this show about the future or the past? When it was about the future, was it about a single future, or multiple futures?

With the fig tree movie, how does the fig tree know to speak human English? As an artist, how do you invite humans to become post-human without reinforcing their humanness (for example: without reinforcing logic, reason, meaning, conscious understanding)?

How might you become animal? Vegetable? Matter? cf: Deleuze and Guattari's Body without Organs / Plane of Immanence / Rhizome. Deterritorialization and Reterritorialization.

What is the ethical value of proposing a speculative future? What is the difference between a sci-fi novel and this exhibition?


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MAGICAL REALISM (at ARGOS)

What did you make of the downstairs viewing stations? Did they remind you of anything? Why include the school children in the videos? Who was the older woman in the video? (the artist, Joan Jonas)

In what ways did humans and sea creatures interact? (touching, projection and bodily imitation of the projection).