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Join Kodwo Eshun and Anjalika Sagar, The Otolith Group, for a conversation with IMMA Director Annie Fletcher that explores a range of works included in the major exhibition of their work Xenogenesis, that range from Anathema (2011) to O Horizon (2018). This talk gives insight into The Otolith Group’s post-cinematic practice that reflects on the artists’ ongoing commitment to creating what they think of as ‘a science fiction of the present’ through images, voices, sonic images, sounds, and performance.
Eshun and Sagar will discuss some of their close readings of Octavia Butler’s science fictions and Butler’s term, Xenogenesis, that inspires the title of the exhibition and an ongoing programme of conversations titled DXG – the Department of Xenogenesis. DXG reflects on Butler’s far reaching speculative fictions, to engage with the author’s black feminist imagination of the denaturalisation of the human, offering a series of thought experiments on what Denise Ferreira da Silva calls a black feminist poethics at the end of the world. DXG is supported by IMMA and provides the framework for a expanded series of talks, discussions, lectures, seminars and workshop that offers a critical reappraisal of Octavia Butlers seminal science fiction works.
Opening Conversation, The Otolith Group with Annie Fletcher: 5.15pm
Opening Conversation with The Otolith Group is presented as part of IMMA Nights, where this summer IMMA opens the grounds of the RHK on Thursday and Friday evenings until 8.30pm, with a series of free events that includes talks, music, workshops and more. Booking essential.
Exhibition Opening: 6.30pm
This talk coincides with the exhibition opening and launch of Xenogenesis by The Otolith Group, comprising of late exhibition viewing, complimentary drinks reception and music.
Music in the Courtyard: 7.10pm – 8.30pm
Featuring DJ sets by Kate Butler and NKECHI.
Kate Butler is a writer and DJ in Dublin since the 1990s, Kate has a monthly show on Dublin Digital Radio (ddr), inspired by rave culture, community clubbing and the disorientating futurism of contemporary dance music. Kate is currently writing This is a Story about Control: Music, Technology and Gendered Roles of Creativity, a book and documentary about women and non-binary people using technology to make music.
NKECHI is an Irish DJ of Nigerian/South African descent based in Lisbon. She has created mixes for Gash collective, DiaxDem and was part of the Skin&Blisters selector series. A lover of club culture her sound is influenced by the percussive club sounds of GQOM, Uk Funky, Baile Funk to bouncy breakbeat and acid house.