Friday, October 20, 2017 – 09:15Arts Catalyst is calling for volunteers (aka Data Thieves) to support us with an exciting project by artist-led group Mission\/Misplaced Memory. \u00a0Manifested through the imaginary lens of a science-fiction narrative, Dreamed Native Ancestry (DNA) critically addresses and re-thinks contemporary issues around race, migration, biopolitics and culture, drawing on Afrofuturist philosophies and anthropology, \u00a0\u00a0\/\/The Mission crew has travelled back from the future where the human population is dying out due to a quest for genetic homogeneity, which has led to a weakened and diseased human race. Cultural accumulation has ceased and humanity\u2019s knowledge growth, technological advancement and story-making capabilities have come to a standstill. The Mission crew is tasked to travel through time, collecting samples, stories and knowledge from the cultural and genetic richness of humanity\u2019s past \u2013 particularly at points of concentrated migration and cultural exchange \u2013 to deposit in a vast human memory vault that will re-seed the human race of the future. London \u2013 King\u2019s Cross \u2013 2017 has been identified as one key centre of migration and culture in human history\/\/.\u00a0Taking form as both an installation and programme, Arts Catalyst\u2019s Centre is transformed into the \u2018Mission Ship\u2019 crewed by a team of data thieves whose task is to collect memories, experiences and traces related to migration and the circulation of knowledge and cultures that it entails.\u00a0\u00a0Find out more about the exhibition here.\u00a0YOUR ROLEDrawing on the character of the \u2018data thief\u2019 in the documentary The Last Angel of History (1996) by John Akomfrah, your role will be to operate between the present and the future. By joining the crew you will play a key role in gathering evidence and traces of diversity and multiculturalism from members of the King\u2019s Cross community and exhibition visitors. You will collect and produce samples and data that will go on to be \u2018re-mixed\u2019 into Dubmorphology sound performances, which form an essential part of the installation.\u00a0Your expected commitment is flexible, but we encourage you to engage with the project for around six sessions (lasting six hours each).\u00a0For further information and to apply please contact us via associate@artscatalyst.org with an expression of interest (500 words max) by Monday 16 November.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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