IYKYK: Artist talks

The exhibition IYKYK (If You Know, You Know) explores the dark side of modern society. Using a cognitive map, the exhibition attempts to reveal the connections between information accessible via regular search engines, the dark web, and various offline sources.

In this event:

• Toran Wolstencroft: IYKYK
• Dakota Harvard: 3D Printer Problems
• A Play by Elsa Rottjers: Believe Everything Except Your Eyes

About the exhibition: IYKYK

The precursor to collective revolution is collective revelation. 

The technocratic billionaire bet is hedged on two pillars, two sciences aerospace and genetics : leave Earth and then cheat mortality. Become not immortal but amortal, something outside of life and death - something outside of the blue marble. This two fold bet makes sense if you want to elongate the time you have to rule. Going off world makes sense from the point of view of resource management. Was this the Sci-fi future we’d all hoped for?

Using our collective imagination to contest the logic of inevitability baked into these technocratic philosophies would be a good place to start our revelations. 

Through this creative exercise in scrutinising the ontologies of the Elite we can develop our capacity to imagine a better version of our shared future. Perhaps this future looks more egalitarian, based on something fundamentally more human, striving to connect to our humanity and our core paradoxes rather than modify ourselves into beings which are fundamentally anti-human. 

Perhaps our vision of the future finds strength in being the total opposite of the vision pitched by Elon, Mark, Jeff, Jefferey and Sam. If the future is spiralling towards dystopia then it is our role to imagine its opposite and create that culture accordingly. 

Know what’s Happening Next — before everyone else does.

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Host or Publisher Oud House