- Venue
- Art Basel, Basel, Switzerland
How are contemporary artists rewriting the future?
Many artists and writers have dedicated their work to describing the future, and the worlds that can be. But since they are placed in time, these descriptions always come with an expiration date: The narrative of Blade Runner, the enormously influential science fiction classic, takes place in November 2019.
As with other classic Sci-Fi works – 2001: a Space Odyssey, 12 Monkeys, Back to the Future, The Astronauts (to name a few) – the futures that they describe are already in the past. The opening decades of the 21st Century seemed to be a limiting point for the imagination. Now that we have hit a reset point and the future is ripe for rewriting, how are contemporary artists working with this subject matter?
The Art Basel 2021 Conversations program is curated by Art Basel and Julieta Aranda, Berlin-based artist and e-flux co-director.
