Future
scenarios
and
other stories
INSPIRE PROJECT 2023
– Museum of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki, Greece
The Inspire Project 2023 revolves around the theme of the Future, in programmatic collaboration with the UNESCO Chair on Futures Research and the Millennium Project, which share with the Inspire Project and MOMus the same research interest in relation to the Future.
As man plans, plans, imagines, dreams or despairs, in other words forms images or ideas about the future, makes assumptions and acts accordingly, the systematic preoccupation with the future both at the level of organizations and at the collective or individual level, it is especially imperative when we consider the globalized, fluid environment of complexity and rapid change in which we live.
Art is the crucial factor that allows the whole problematic to be investigated in a new way. In Inspire Project 2023, through the axis of art, young artists enrich dominant and secondary narratives, offer new person-centered and collective narratives, create an artistic collective framework of thought and action for many alternative future universes.
The goal of Inspire Project 2023 is to shake up many different narratives not only to imagine the future, but also to make us and our audiences understand that our visions of the future are dynamic and often emerge from composition. After all, it is these visions that guide our choices in the present and ultimately shape the future.
The works presented were the result of a
series of reflections and discussions within the framework of
the museum’s program for the future.
Their creation was based on the way I
choose to think about this particular
theme, treating it as something
dystopian and bleak.
The result is a mixture of AI
Generator and existing photographs of
abandoned buildings, mainly due to war,
at least 50 years old.
The focus was not on the reasons and causes of
abandonment, but on its consequences.
The ruined buildings and fragmented
culture left to the ravages of time, without
human intervention and care, end up
decaying.
The above observation is illustrated by the
characteristic example of Easter Island, where the silence
of a once vibrant civilization bears witness to the
imperceptible but deep wounds of abandonment and
the loss of a common way of life that once
bound people, land, and memory together.
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