Coinciding with the Kochi-Muziris biennale as an independent initiative, Future Orbits explores speculative futures across a range of presentations, debates and film screenings over three days. This gathering investigates three strands of inquiry: Urban Imaginaries/ Global Ontologies, ‘Rights’ in a Right-Wing World and The Work of Curation. Discussing on-going projects and strategies, the participants & audiences share a process that thickens with each ‘orbit’ of rotation, encouraging the collective development of new propositions, interventions & creative action.
We invite you to imagine the future as co-passengers across different time zones, locations and historical periods, drawn together by this collective gazing. Questioning, probing and revealing the critical imaginative capacities we use to construct time and space, our ‘future’ constellations may thus be drawn in the present.