I'm writing to send you the details of the Sept. 3 FUTURE ENERGY SUMMIT, to be held at the Folkestone Town Hall from 11AM - 6pm.
Future Energy Summit engages the emerging field of energy humanities, and the discourses of the future of energy and post-fossil fuel transition, to explore multidisciplinary approaches to energy, including non-human energy production by organisms
such as bacteria or fungi, and the forms of energy in an expanded field, from psychotropic plant or mushroom induced altered states of mind to hybrid infrastructures.
According to Imre Szeman, one of the contributors of Future Energy Summit, the narrative of fossil fuel based modernity is already a fiction that made the expansive use of energy invisible for the sake of exhausted models of ‘progress’ and ‘freedom’.
Therefore, the key question raised on the occasion of this Summit is: how can we “rewrite” these fictions, unearthing our relation to energy production processes that are already part of natural systems and reprogramming our relation to our own and other human
and non-human bodies?
The FUTURE ENERGY SUMMIT program can be found here:
or here:
Folkestone QuarterHouse is handling reservations here:
Free entry, though registration required.
Please help to communicate the Summit to your networks, friends and colleagues!
Just to let you know of the Triennial’s opening events.
On the 2nd of Sept. all the works will be open to public, including the Folke Stone Power Plant, our work commissioned by the Triennial. The Stone Power Plant is sited in front of Folkestone Museum, in the ancient Market Place.
It was inspired by the writings and drawings of Alexander von Humboldt, the 19th Century polymath whose studies in geography and the environment initiated the science of ecology. The 'stone' contains innovative organic batteries (storing electricity capable
of powering the adjacent lamp-post.
As part of the opening events there is a symposium titled On the Edge: Time and Truth:
we are speaking on our work in that symposium on the panel titled Geological Time and slated from 4:30PM
other events on the 2nd:
Sorry for the short notice!
with warm regards,
Gediminas