Climate change. Zombies. Paying the rent at the end of the month. How do our anxieties about the future—whether imminently catastrophic, fantastical or mundane—play out in our bodies? Do we carry traces of these vivid daydreams in our physical movements? Is the way we move a direct product of the future?
F U T U R E G E S T U R E S is a new participatory artwork comprised of a series of physical workshops designed to assess contemporary mentalities towards the future.
Lillian Ross-Millard has designed a 4-hour long workshop which focuses on the ways we physically prepare for the future in the short and long-term by using the information and experience stored in our bodies. You can expect a physical warm-up, writing exercises, and a method of aleatory choreography developed by the artist herself. Breaks will be scheduled.
By the end of the workshop, you will have developed a short, choreographed sequence, which will serve as a consolidated physical expression of an emotional experience of the future. You are invited to have your gesture documented, contributing to a visual database that will be presented as a conceptual moving image work.