The conference rA/Upture_2: ancestral_futurities; g_hosting; third_actors took place in the frame of the OFF-Biennále Budapest 2021 and was developed together with Technologie und das Unheimliche.

It was held in a hybrid format, streaming 3 discussion panels with 3 speakers each and 2 musical performances out from the headquaters of OFF-Biennále which could be followed online on Saturday, May 8, 2021 from 11:00 until 18:15.

Participants: Matt Colquhoun, Clémentine Déliss, Ulrike Gerhardt, Zoltán Ginelli, Julia Hartmann, Mark Horvath and Adam Lovasz (absentology), Amanda Piña, Borbála Soós, Bálint Szabó, Technologie und das Unheimliche (Zsolt Miklósvölgyi, Márió Z. Nemes) & adO/Aptive (Janina Weißengruber, Daniel Hüttler)

This one-day symposium is organically connected to the HUF-project at OFF-Biennále Budapest. With this, we involve Hungarian and international contemporary art professionals, theoreticians, and researchers in the examination of alternative future visions, concepts and phenomena that may help (re-)restore our faith in the future in our age that can best be described as “the slow cancellation of the future.”

Description: rA/Upture, as the leitmotif of this discursive event, is the vocal amalgam of the words rapture and rupture. By uncovering and splitting the inherent duality of rapture, and by decoupling it from its ideological stagnation we shall unravel the potential of different perspectives on identity and well-being because we think that the constuction of identity shall be reappropriated as a disruptive tool. By extracting the prefix dis- from the double negation disruption and attaching it to the composite “rapture”, the term dis_rapture emerges. By investigating this notion, we want to delve into a deconstructive analysis of contemporary forms of thought and ideology, that have already manifested themselves in critical discourse. It is the disruptive act which ruptures predominant ideologies of rapture. By using dis_rapture as a method we encourage the development of subversive ideas we could have about the future and the past.

HUNGAROFUTURISM, a programmatic poetics of transformation is one of many possible examples that strive for a creative re-channeling of narratives of origin and a restoration of hope in speculative utopias and other forms of futures and pasts. Different Xenotopias can be understood as dis_rapitve tools, capable of deconstructing and thereby challenging paradigmatic myths.

ancestral_futurities; g_hosting; third_actors

Please find a more detailed take on the three topics we identified as urgent
to be discursively investigated with nine speakers below.

The conference will be held in English.

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The first 𝙧𝘼/𝙐𝙥𝙩𝙪𝙧𝙚 conference in 2020 was initially developed by adO/Aptive for the HUNGROFUTURIST project at the OFF Biennale 2020, that was then postponed to this year. In the course of this first issue, the notions of xenofuturities, specters, and anachrony as well as the term dis_rapture in relation to them were investigated. This took place in the form of a hybrid-conference on October 3rd and 4th, 2020, which moderated by A/O at nadaLokal, Vienna, and streamed online. Find more information to the first issue here: http://adoaptive.pet/projects/raupture-conference.

interactive booklet previous rA/Upture conference

ancestral_futurities	g_hosting
Amanda Piña	Borbála Soós
Clémentine Deliss	Zoltán Ginelli
Bálint Szabó	Mark Horvath & Adam Lovasz

Third_Actors
Matt Colquhoun
Ulrike Gerhardt
Julia Hartmann

May 8, 2021

ancestral_futurities

Reigning powers have forced the plethora of futures developed in past-times into a state of hibernation. HUF and other ethnofuturistic projects seek to warm up and reactivate such ancient futures. Once a hibernating future wakes up, pasts will be dragged with it and therefore come to life. The awakening of these ancient futures tell histories narrated and created that re_animate the potential of a a_temporal revolution that travels from the present through the future to the past.

Participants: Clémentine Déliss (FR), Amanda Piña (CL/MX) and Bálint Szabó (HU)

g_hosting

The past does not only haunt the present, but also the ancient futures we want to awaken. Our desire is to create a multi_perspective on different points in time. Time confusion does not necessarily have to be haunting, it can provide a stance and be host the ghosts who would like to enter the timeline from another perspective. The ghost that HUF has conjured enables a dialectics of desire; an erotic play between the g_host and a non-linear time conception.

Participants: Borbála Soós (HU/UK), Zoltán Ginelli (HU) and Mark Horvath & Adam Lovasz (HU)

third_actors

When we think of binaries it is we who embody a third observer, distanced enough to divide between sides. To embrace this conjuncture of dia_logistics we introduce the notion of a third actor. The third actors confuse the binary sense of co_existance, it re-situates the monologues hidden behind dialogues by responding or reorganising the manners of communication. How can we use this figure to untangle the trinity of past, present, future then?

Is the past allied with the present forming a retrotopia against the future? Or is it a bond between future and present against the past utopia?
Perhaps the past bonds with the future against the present as a dystopia. How can we intervene in these binary chronological orders?

Participants: Matt Colquhoun (UK), Ulrike Gerhardt (DE) and Julia Hartmann (AT)