Exposition

Running Freight on the River. A Clean Cargo Prefiguration (2023)

Tim Boykett, Tina Auer
open exposition

About this exposition

We are interested in exploring the types of futures that are preferable for us all. Discussions of preferable futures can be made difficult by a lack of understanding of the lived experience of that possible future. We like to think that some wise person once said: “I hear futures and I forget. I see futures and I remember. I do futures and I understand.” In order to explore scenarios of possible futures, we thus look into experiential modalities. This exposition examines our Danube Clean Cargo project. The prefigurative process imagined what small scale localised transport could be like and attempted to run a pilot scheme. Reporting on that, merging the quantitative, qualitative and experiential aspects of the project, we present some resulting insights and imaginations. The project leaves us with speculations and visions drawn out by the process of prefiguration. It also leaves us with questions around heterotopic instantiations, queered economics and the everyday to be pondered as artistic research. This helps us reflect on the process of imagination and speculation, on dreams of various freedoms and the harsh realities of logistics chains. The exposition develops ideas in both internal and external reflective modes. The exposition is oriented along a chart of the Danube river for the region of interest. Along the south bank of the Danube the project and its internal reflections are arrayed as episodic text fragments, leading up to a short vision that echoes older stories of sailing cargo barges. Along the north bank a more external reflection is positioned, bringing the project and its understandings into context with a collection of previous developments and external references. The entire exposition is arranged as a single page paper nautical chart, which in contrast to a digital chart plotter, always displays all of the information and does not hide features. This exposition is part of Curiouser and Curiouser, cried Alice: Rebuilding Janus from Cassandra and Pollyanna (CCA), an art-based research project from Design Investigations (ID2) at the University of Applied Arts Vienna and Time's Up. It is supported by the Programme for Arts-based Research (PEEK) from the Austrian Science Fund (FWF): AR561.
typeresearch exposition
keywordsfutures, prefiguration, speculative practice, rivers, water; performance; stone;, freight, cargo, trade, Danube, Experience, Atemporality, heterotopia, speculation, everyday life
date21/12/2023
published21/12/2023
last modified21/12/2023
statuspublished
share statusprivate
affiliationTime's Up / Die Angewandte
copyrightTime's Up
licenseCC BY-NC-ND
languageEnglish
urlhttps://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/1294895/1294896/3338/3138
doihttps://doi.org/10.22501/jar.1294895
published inJournal for Artistic Research
portal issue31. 31


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