A Few Rules for Predicting the Future
Schedule
Fri Mar 13 2026 at 09:00 am to 09:00 pm
UTC+01:00Location
Castille Place, VLT 1060 Valletta, Malta | Valletta, MA
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🇬🇧 A Few Rules for Predicting the Future takes its title from a 2000 essay by Afrofuturist Sci-Fi writer Octavia E. Butler, in which she calls for a grounded futurity shaped by interdependence, transformation, and imagination. Taking inspiration from her insistence that today change is the only constant, the exhibition brings together international artists whose works move between critical engagements with the present and speculative propositions. Meaning emerges in the gaps, blind spots, and fractures of contemporary reality, marked by crisis, wars, traumas and upheaval.
Rather than attempting to predict what is to come, the artists trace the future’s contours from the ground up. Their works operate as constellations; interlinked, provisional, and emergent.
Refusing coherence as a fixed endpoint, the projects in the show hold space for contradiction, tension, and transformation, inhabiting a horizon of potential that resists closure and completion.
🇲🇹 A Few Rules for Predicting the Future tieħu l-isem tagħha minn komponiment ta’ kitba li saret fl-2000, miktuba mill-kittieba tal-fantaxjenza Afrofuturista Octavia E. Butler, li fiha tħeġġeġ għal futur ibbażat fuq l-interdipendenza, it-trasformazzjoni u l-immaġinazzjoni. 🔮✨
Ispirata mill-insistenza tagħha li llum il-bidla hija l-unika kostanti, l-esebizzjoni tiġbor flimkien artisti internazzjonali li xogħolhom jiċċaqlaq bejn involvimenti kritiċi mal-preżent u proposti spekulattivi. It-tifsira toħroġ fil-vojt, fl-għama u fil-fratturi tar-realtà kontemporanja, immarkata mill-kriżijiet, il-gwerer, it-trawmi u t-taqlib.
Minflok ma jippruvaw ibassru x’se jiġri, l-artisti jittraċċaw il-kontorni tal-futur mill-art ’il fuq. Ix-xogħlijiet tagħhom jaħdmu bħala kostellazzjonijiet; marbuta, provviżorji u emerġenti. 🌌
Jirrifjutaw il-koerenza bħala punt finali fiss, il-proġetti fl-esebizzjoni jħallu spazju għall-kuntradizzjoni, it-tensjoni u t- trasformazzjoni, waqt li jgħixu fuq orizzont ta’ potenzjal li jirreżisti l-għeluq u l-stat komplut.
📅 Friday 13th March - Sunday 10th May 2026
📍 Spazju A, Spazju Kreattiv
🌐 https://spazjukreattiv.org/event/a-few-rules-for-predicting-the-future/
🤝 This project is commissioned by Spazju Kreattiv and supported by the Embassy of the Netherlands in Malta and Federal Ministry of Housing, Arts, Culture, Media and Sport, Republic of Austria.
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Where is it happening?
Castille Place, VLT 1060 Valletta, Malta, Flame That Never Dies, Pjazza Kastilja, Valletta, VLT, MaltaEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
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