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Catastrophe Time! How do we live in a world that we鈥檙e actively unmaking?
31 January 2024, 6:00 pm鈥�8:00 pm
The Centre for Capitalism Studies is pleased to present this multi-media event, film screening and discussion with Gary Zhexi Zhang, Klara Kofen and Bahar Noorizadeh.
This event is free.
Event Information
Open to
- All | UCL staff | UCL students
Availability
- Yes
Cost
- Free
Organiser
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Institute of Advanced Studies
Location
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Lecture Theatre G22North-West Wing (to the left as you enter UCL from Gower St)UCL, Gower Street, LondonWC1E 6BTUnited Kingdom
Amidst the weird temporalities of finance, technology and climate, reality and fiction shimmer through one another.听Catastrophe Time! takes a journey through the strange weather of the present with artists, writers, physicists, economists, catastrophe modellers and financial astrologers. Through their interventions, participants pay attention to the conditions of speculative knowledge on an increasingly volatile planet.听Traversing a gray zone between rigorous research and operative science fictions, they question how practices of speculation may transform, undermine, and at times exceed, the worlds they set out to model.
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Read more about the book,听Catastrophe Time, edited by听Gary Zhexi Zhang听(Strange Attractor Press, 2023):听
The听UCL Centre for Capitalism Studies听is a world-leading centre for critical interdisciplinary research into the past, present, and future of capitalism. It brings together UCL faculty and students studying how markets, finance and economic institutions shape our everyday life, structure societies鈥� capacity to change, and are contested and remade across time and space.
About the Speakers
Gary Zhexi Zhang
Artist and writer
Gary Zhexi Zhang is an artist and writer whose work explores connections between cosmology, technology and economy. He was born in Suzhou and works in London.
Klara Kofen
Artist
Klara Kofen writes libretti, directs, makes costumes (mostly using paper), has a penchant for 鈥榩ataphysics鈥�, and originally wanted to become a historian of the European Enlightenment. She is from Germany, studied at Glasgow and Oxford and is about to start the MA in Opera Making at Guildhall. She is the co-Artistic Director of Waste Paper Opera Company.
Bahar Noorizadeh
Artist
Bahar听Noorizadeh听looks at the relationship between art and capitalism. In her practice as an artist, writer and filmmaker, she examines the conflictual and contradictory notions of imagination and speculation as they suffuse one another. Her research investigates the histories of economics, cybernetic socialism, and activist strategies against the financialization of life and the living space, asking what redistributive historical justice looks like for the present.