Nottingham Contemporary

Emergency & Emergence

Via questions of repair, remediation and mutation, Emergency & Emergence investigates sensorial and speculative practices of radical sensemaking and wayfinding amid the devastation of the planet and the colossal failure of liberal politics. How do we move from emergency to emergence, from crisis to renewal?

Reverberating with ideas and knowledges opposing racial and colonial capitalism, conceived through visual and aural culture as well as radical politics, Emergency & Emergence assembles diverse cultural practitioners to generate new emancipatory possibilities and forms of life, founded upon social justice and environmental wellbeing.

To draw out the textures and tensions of political and social unrest, this research strand continually entangles and disentangles varying narratives, tempos and hues to invent and reinvent knowledges. Whilst using sonic as a methodology, a relation, and a sensitivity to build and tie together social and historical, it renders porosities of vibration and brings together multiple platforms to think and learn across many sites, thus coming to know generously varying and shifting worlds, ideas and practices and possibilities of those to create new solidarities.

This long-term research strand will unfold over the course of 2022-23, manifesting by way of sensorial exchanges in the format of symposiums and gatherings, listening sessions, newly commissioned performances, and a series of workshops, as well as a writer-in-residence and a new issue of The Contemporary Journal.

Emergency & Emergence is curated by Canan Batur.

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Caves, Dwellings & Vibration Past, Event
Sat 10 Dec – Sun 11 Dec, 12.30pm–10pm
Black and white image of people standing in a cave
After Growth: A Symposium on Post-Capitalist Imaginaries Past, Event
Sat 19 Mar – Sun 20 Mar
the words "after growth: a symposium on post capitalist imaginaries 19.03-20.03" in black on a yellow and pink gradient background
Keynote: Beatriz Colomina and Mark Wigley Past, Talk
Sat 16 Jul, 6pm–7.30pm
Beatriz Colomina and Mark Wigley stand smiling at the camera with their arms around each other
Artists’ Film: Gerard Ortín Castellví, Agrilogistics Past, Talk
Wed 25 May, 6.30pm–8pm
a poster for "agrilogistics". the title is in black on a gridded turquoise background surrounded by a border of pink flowering plants
Artists’ Film: Creatures of the Lines Past, Online, Talk
Tue 12 Apr, 6.30pm–8pm
a close up image of shapes resembling a spinal column
Listening Session: Seeing Through Flames: Palestinian Sound Archive by Mo'min Swaitat Past, Study Session, Music
Tue 4 Oct, 6.30pm–8pm
A black and white image of a woman dancing in the centre of a room, surrounded by people sat on chairs
Listening Session: Seeing Through Flames: Hollows and Resonances by David Toop Past, Study Session, Music
Tue 1 Nov, 6.30pm–8pm
A black and white image of David Toop knelt on the floor surrounded by wires and instruments. In the background there is a crowd of people sat on chairs and on the floor
Listening Session: Seeing Through Flames: Love Saves the Day by Tim Lawrence Past, Study Session, Music
Tue 22 Nov, 6pm–8.30pm
David Mancuso, 2006. Photo Roberto Najar.
Listening Session: Seeing Through Flames: The Strangeness of the Dub by Edward George Past, Study Session, Music
Tue 27 Sep, 6.30pm–8pm
a black and white image of speakers
Listening Session: Seeing Through Flames: eleven theses on p-funk Past, Study Session, Music
Thu 9 Jun, 6pm–7.30pm
a photo of P-funk standing on a street in costume
Vegetal Matrix: Decolonial Botany Workshop by Patricia Domínguez Past, Workshop
Thu 31 Mar, 4pm–7pm
hands coming out of pots of cacti
Workshop: I am a Turtle Past, Workshop
Sun 17 Jul, 2pm–5pm
a turtle with the legs of a human
Writer in Residence 22 - 23
Two brightly lit colourful sculptures in a dark outdoor space
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