Pensées Aléatoires du Futur
March 14-17 2019 | Festival Videoformes | Clermont-Ferrand, France
We dream of the future, as we have for thousands of years – and we imagine a time when civilization has solved its problems, located joy and improved the state of humanity. We futurists think that the age of data and the advancement of science will take us into a future where war, money and disease disappear. People will be equals, free to enjoy the pleasures of life.
These grand ideas made us feel better about the torments of today, but they overlook one simple fact. Every BIG picture is composed of smaller parts. Rarely is there a singularity of purpose, an event that defines change or heralds a new age. The future will happen slowly, distinctly and intimately– through changes to each of us, and change we bring to the world.
The world will evolve, but in ways we cannot predict. It will be messy, capricious, cryptic, lost, forbidden, and forgotten. Science fiction is just that – a story we tell ourselves in order to forget the challenges of the presents as we hope for salvation.
Pensées Aléatoires is collage of variations and evolutions – singular gestures and thoughts – that describe a possible future. Rooted in the power of the individual and exhibited in a fleeting and metaphoric manner, the work helps us to discover how small the future will be.
A Bandits Mages Production
Created by John Sanborn
with the participation of Pascal Lièvre
rounded with a sleep 