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Course Description

Summary

In this 4000-level iteration of the Future Histories, Speculative Sites Lab, students are invited to work together with Elæ Moss on envisioning and building the Speculative Solidarities : YEAR ONE Field Station / Community Care Hub as they develop their own original speculative proposals (for past, present, and future) and hone these into public-facing projects across a range of media. For those who weren’t participants in the 2000-level fall course, we will begin with a quick dive into precedents of speculative thinking and practice, contemporary and historical meaning-making, and a consideration of the (simultaneously exciting and terrifying) plasticity of archival practices, with returning students sharing the collective resource bank we built in the prior semester. Student work will culminate in a shared publication and digital exhibition, and individual students will be supported in the development and public release of their project (and/or project materials in practice). Potential mediums in which this work might be produced include: visual / archival / sculptural / conceptual installation / curatorial practices; film and video; audio and sound development / podcast / score or composition; performance (which might include any number of the prior); game design; narrative / written work; etc. Students may come in with a plan to develop work in keeping with the mediums central to their plan, and/or to stretch their skillsets within the container of the Future Histories Lab, working both with Moss and fellow student Field Agents to share intelligences as a concrete practice of Speculative Solidarity. In part, we will explore the ways in which speculative thinking is and can be translated into and across media for public use and consumption: a writer might consider the ways in which audio, video or site-specific installation could shift and deepen engagement with their narrative. A performer might think about the production of a publication alongside an otherwise ephemeral evening’s stagecraft, and so on.