Poster design: Sara Sanz Gallen @sarasanzgallen_
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Workshop by Irene Sánchez Mora
09/11/2024, 16:00 - 19:00
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WORKSHOP IS FULLY BOOKED, THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR YOUR INTEREST 🧡
Join us for the very first edition of “Reclaiming Technology Sessions”, where we will focus on topics around technology, gender, ethics, speed and speculative design. As part of this session, we will host the Slower Pace in Outer Space workshop by Irene Sanchez where you can build your own speculative deceleration device.
⏰ Date: November 9th (Saturday) from 16:00 to 19:00
📍 Location: Jurányi Ház, Jurányi u. 1, 1027 Budapest, Hungary
💎 Participation is free of charge.
👾 All materials will be provided, and no prior knowledge is required.
ℹ️ Info: Online registration is required for the workshop due to limited capacity under this link: https://forms.gle/VMoiLeUcbmEUNpEB9
About the Workshop:
The New Space Race has long since ceased to be a distant speculation. MIT, NASA, Forbes, and The Times have called it the New Space Economy, a term that reduces our relationship with outer space to extractions and transactions. The speeds at which the latest private projects occupy the galaxy leave little room for rethinking the ethics under which we relate to other orbital realities. Slower Pace in Outer Space is an open workshop that aims to question the rhythms of occupation in the universe. In it, we will focus on the notion of race in its strictest sense and propose other ways of relating to the outer.
There is a historical association that places the responsibility for the processes of social acceleration on the processes of technological implementation. Terms such as turbo-capitalism, assigned to engines or the motorised, this upward trend of speed in globalising processes. In this workshop, we will discuss whether the current accelerated context could have its maximum expression in the rocket — as the latest space probes travel at speeds of up to 700,000 km/h — or whether, on the contrary, blaming technology for speed results in technophobic positions.
To propose other approaches to technology, we will prototype deceleration devices for Merlin-1, the jet engine integrated into SpaceX’s Falcon 9-1. We will thus approach technology from places far removed from the idea of exponential progress and develop devices to dissipate the zenithal charge that makes propulsion and accelerated displacement possible.
For any questions write us to [email protected]
About Irene:
Irene Sánchez (Alicante, 1997) is an artist, teacher and researcher currently working as a PhD resident at the Lab for the Unstable Media (_V2) in Rotterdam. She develops a doctoral thesis on new techno-artistic imaginaries in the face of post-colonial structures in outer space. Her artistic practice focuses on imagining devices of resistance and critical interfaces that help us think about other ways of relating to exteriority and otherness through speculative design.
She graduated in Fine Arts from the Polytechnic University of València and holds a Master's Degree in Visual and Multimedia Arts. She is also part of the research group Laboratorio de Luz (Light Laboratory) in the same university, where she works collectively around the interactivity issue in the arts' field.
Website: https://irenenenene.com/
Photo: Courtesy of Irene Sánchez Mora.
The event is organized in collaboration between ProProgressione, Silvia Binda Heiserova and offDAC and is Funded by the European Union. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the European Education and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA). Neither the European Union nor EACEA can be held responsible for them.
Photos by: Gabor Toth.