Performance by Ho Rui An
Investigating the rise of speculative aesthetics as a practice of futurecraft in a post-securitization crisis era, Horizon Scanners examines various futures and “horizon scanning” programmes devised by the Singapore government to anticipate “black swans” or rare, hard-to-predict events of great consequence. Accordingly, this displacement of positivist models of probability and prediction by the “metaphor” as an uncertain epistemological ground produces a narrative economy of “weak signals” struggling to emerge from the noise. The lecture approaches this predicament by considering how in a time of horizon scanning, what matters are the conditions of legibility that allow us to affirm some narratives while extinguishing others.
Shapiro Theatre from 6-8pm, Schapiro Hall, 605 W. 115th Street