Meeting 2 * Special edition Club vidéo at the Villa — Travel and the Oneric
6pm
What dreams and desires, what utopias and dystopias of yesterday and today underlie the conquests, projects, traffic networks and vehicles, their industries6 and vernacular experiences? The Travel and the Oneric will frame Verticale’s 2018-2019 programming. VCA invites artists to indulge in visions and examinations of the fantastical world of travel and transportation. The connection between displacement and dreams, albeit equivocal, resonates strongly in the social imaginary. It is ramified into various scientific and cultural domains (economics, engineering, urbanism, psychology, psychoanalysis, anthropology, mythology, popular culture, science-fiction, marketing, design, etc.). As a thought process, the oneiric also opens us to a temporality of the future, of imagination, ideation, and anticipation. To move people, to deviate the linearity of progress, from its paradoxes and perplexities, is the great strength of a position that embraces imaginary transport, speculation, and the surreal. Like art, it engages in the potential of a multitude of paths.
Readings that are not available online can be found at Librairie Port de tête, our partner for this event.