Projection shed with Timelines of the Future, shed inspired by the Rolla Market
Projection shed with Timelines of the Future, shed inspired by the Rolla Market
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Installationshot of the timeline and the film at Spike Island
     
    
Selection of stills of 'Wandering through the Future':














Wandering through the Future consists of fragments of 70 film productions from all over the world. Passing all sorts of apocalyptic landscapes and scenarios, the one-hour video leads you through the future from 2008 until 802.701 A.D. in order of appearance.


Wandering through the Future
is commissioned by Sharjah Biennial 8
Theme: STILL Life, Art, Ecology and the politics of change
Location: Sharjah, United Arab Emirates
Curated by: Jonathan Watkins, Eva Scharrer, Mohammed Kazem
Period: 4 April - 4 June 2007

Wandering through the Future, film (duration 60 min.), printed timeline, slideshow on LCD billboard.
Concept and production: Marjolijn Dijkman
Editing / Graphic design:  Harmen van Eersel, Visual music
Wonders of the World:
Flyer, fly-posted thoughout the city

Thanks to:
Jonathan Watkins, Maarten Vanden Eynde, Visual music, Willem Vanden Eynde, the whole organisation of the Sharjah Biennial 8

Participating artists Sharjah Biennial 8:
Ignasi Aballi; Lida Abdul; Jennifer Allora & Guillermo Calzadilla; Lara Almarcegui; El Anatsui; Roy Arden; Vladimir Arkhipov; Mireille Astore; Lara Baladi; Noor Al-Bastaki; Taysir Batniji; Marjolijn Dijkman; Bright Ugochukwu Eke; Sophie Elbaz; e-Xplo (Rene Gabri, Heimo Lattner, Erin McGonigle ) with Ayreen Anastas; Touhami Ennadre; Mounir Fatmi; Peter Fend; Franz Gertsch; Abdulnasser Gharem; Simryn Gill; Tue Greenfort; Group Tuesday (Fadi Abdallah, Bilal Khbeiz, Walid Sadek); Graham Gussin; Khaled Hafez; Henrik Håkansson; Anawana Haloba; Ilana Halperin; Mona Hatoum; Susan Hefuna; Uschi Huber; Mohamed Ahmed Ibrahim; Alfredo Jaar; Gulnara Kasmalieva and Muratbek Djumaliev; Marya Kazoun; Amal Kenawy; Leopold Kessler; Suchan Kinoshita; Joachim Koester; Christina Kubisch; Deborah Ligorio; Claudia Losi; Lutz & Guggisberg; Tea Mäkipää; Hassan Meer; Gustav Metzger; MindBomb; Abdul Rahman Al Ma'aini; Maha Mustafa; Jesus Bubu Negron; Jacques Nimki; OMA/ Rem Koolhaas & Reinier de Graaf; Cornelia Parker; Pablo Patrucco; Dan Perjovschi; Dan Peterman; Marjetica Potrc; Michael Rakowitz; Ibrahim Rashid; Noguchi Rika; Budoor Al Riyami; Raeda Saadeh; Abdallah Alsaadi; Huda Saeed Saif; Michael Sailstorfer; Tomas Saraceno; Joe Scanlan; Zineb Sedira; Anas Al-Shaikh; Ranjani Shettar; SOI Project; Samir Srouji; Simon Starling; Gerda Steiner & Jörg Lenzlinger; Rirkrit Tiravanija; Mierle Laderman Ukeles; Sergio Vega; Luca Vitone; Shatha Al-Wadi; Camille Zakharia; Ahmed Mater Al-Ziad.

Wandering through the Future has been exhibited at:

2011

Free Fall, 4th Artisterium, Tbilisi, GE
SURVIVAL KIT3, Latvian Centre for Contemporary art (LCCA), Riga, LV
Mutualisms, Co-Prosperity Sphere (C-PS), Chicago, US
Theatrum Orbis Terrarum (solo), Spike Island, Bristol, UK
SOS Planet, Trongate 103, Glasgow, UK

2010
SOS Planet, Torinover 2010, Torino, IT
Real Talk, curated by Oliver Laric, Seventeen Gallery, London, UK
Wandering through the Future, Glasgow International Festival of Visual Art, Trongate 103, Glasgow, UK
Festart, TR1 Gallery, Tampere, FI
The World in 100 Years... The History of the Future, Ars Electronica Center, Linz, AT

2009
The Uncertainty Principle, MACBA, Barcelona, ES
Back to the Future, Curtas, Vila do Conde, PT
Without Kubrick, screening, Lothringen13 / Laden, München, DE
Futurology, Arnolfini, Bristol, UK
Rethink Kakotopia, Nikolaj Copenhagen Contemporary Art Center, DK

2008
LOCALISMS, Museum de Paviljoens, Almere, NL
Wandering through the Future, The Architecture Foundation, London, UK
Los Angeles Works, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles, US
Now JumP, Nam June Paik Museum, Yongin-si, Gyeonggi-do, KR

2007
Wandering through the Future, IKON Gallery, Birmingham, UK
Architecture Film Festival Rotterdam, Cinerama, NL
'Filmische Wahrheiten' Heidelberger Kunstverein, Heidelberg, DE
Sharjah Biennial 8, Still Life, Ecology and the Politics of Change, Sharjah, AE







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