ARIA: Klara Kofen: To all the junkyards of what-ifs

This lecture by Klara Kofen was part of ARIA's Worlds’ End Symposium held in Museum of Modern Art Ljubljana on 17 & 18 August.
Lauren Berlant writes, "Once I called myself a utopian (...) I should have called on the heterotopian, which attends to living in the copresence of many forms of life."
What organisational, sensual, and affective regimes emerge when all modalities of existence are out of joint? And how can their pasts be syhnthesised with their many potential futures? Is synthesis the right mode of organisation or is a new, radically compositionist approach needed? In this talk, Klara Kofen will examine her research on the 17th-century polycrisis that coincided with the birth of many modernities, alongside her work as a creator of operas, which serve as formal, historical, organisational, and aesthetic vectors; a form of “multimodal worlding” that is translational, affective, and compositional.
Klara Kofen is an interdisciplinary artist, dramaturg and writer, based in London. She is the artistic director of Waste Paper Opera, a collective that creates sound-based intermedia works. Her work is concerned with histories, speculative, counterfactual, real and imagined and the way technological interfaces shape our relation to time and affect. More on: klarakofen.car...
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ARIA was developed and curated by Tjaša Pogačar and Brandon Rosenbluth.
Production: Projekt Atol Institute (Lara Mejač and Uroš Veber)
In collaboration with: Šum journal (Društvo Galerija Boks)
Co-Production: Museum of Modern Art Ljubljana, International Centre of Graphic Arts Ljubljana (MGLC)
Visual design 2024: Nicola Tirabasso
Video documentation and montage: Jan Drozg
ARIA is part of More-than-Planet project, co-funded by the European Union as part of the Creative Europe framework and supported by the Ministry of Public Administration of the Republic of Slovenia, the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Slovenia and the City of Ljubljana.
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