Unfold #3 is out!

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Vision Forum is proud to announce  Unfold #3 “The Economy is Spinning” curated by Kris Dittel in collaboration with Onomatopee.  In an interview with Sara Giannini he says:

I have been fantasizing about libraries of the 21st century and yet those imaginations tend to turn into a delusion: while we have the infrastructure for sharing and realizing all the grandiose ideals libraries have ever promised — free, accessible, universal — the reality seems a little all-too-real-to-be-called dystopian in the age of “knowledge production”.

When composing the folders I took as a starting point the primary questions Unfold and its predecessor the VOLUME project tackle: what is the role and potential of libraries today, what essentially a library may be? A public space, a symbolic entity, a temple or a monument, a knowledge-generating machine or a utopian promise (and possibly many more)?

From here the content of the folders questions the possibilities of infinite digital reproducibility, the machine-like autopoiesis of the market economy, and the chilling mechanisms of cognitive capitalism where language becomes a currency and is emptied out of poetic qualities. It does so through philosophical and literal references with additional texts, artworks and images produced by commissioned artists and writers, which connect the folders’ content with that of the exhibition in a complementary manner.

WELCOME back to unfold.