Live 'Feedstream' Performance #5: Ask Me for Those Unborn Promises that May Seem Unlikely to Happen in the Natural
Generative artificial intelligence creates speculative images that, while not based on real events, remain plausible, constructing realities that have yet to unfold. Situated more in the realm of possibility than empirical certainty, these images introduce a new form of ‘synthetic realism’. They reshape the past and present through their world-building potential, and it is precisely in their apparent innocence – lacking concrete references, historical roots, genealogies or context – that they exert a silent yet profound violence against history and factual reality.
Della Ratta’s live ‘Feedstream’ performance is a hybrid live event, part essayistic lecture, part immersive audiovisual performance, created in collaboration with THE VOID (a research project by Tommaso Campagna and Jordi Viader Guerrero on tactical video and an audiovisual publishing venue for practice-based research).
Combining text and visuals, including found footage, social media threads and AI-generated media, the work explores ‘speculative violence’: an emerging mode of the image’s existence, oscillating between explicit destruction and subtle, almost imperceptible effects.
The performance leads the audience on a disquieting journey through the violence of the not-yet-realised, navigating symbols and contemporary landscapes from Palestine to Trump’s America. It’s followed by a conversation moderated by Jamil Fiorino-Habib.
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This event is in English. Admission is free.
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