16-17 November
Gasworks, London
Conversation with Riar Rizaldi about his artistic practice and experience of participating in Animistic Apparatus.
“Taking its title from a hypothesis in particle physics and astrophysics, Strangelet is a symposium programmed in tandem with Riar Rizaldi’s exhibition Mirage.
A strangelet refers to a droplet of subatomic particles consisting of strange quarks. If ordinary matter comes into contact with a strangelet, the matter will suddenly transform into strangelet, changing the order of the universe as we know it into something strange and beyond our comprehension.
Conceptualising the strangelet as a production of strange and pervasive knowledge, the symposium brings together friends, strangers and mavericks who explore topics that, in the context of Sufism, are categorised as gharib [weird or strange]. This includes animistic apparatuses, weird science, possessions, and trance rituals. Participants and attendees might feel as if they are part of an anarchist secret society sermon like Acéphale, or a meeting of the elusive mystical philosophy group Ikhwan al-Safa” (Gasworks)
Schedule:
Day 1, Saturday 16 November
11am Opening remarks
11:15am Riar Rizaldi and May Adadol Ingawanij
12:15pm Luigi Monteanni
1pm Lunch
2pm Jessica Kwok
3pm Riar Rizaldi
4pm Panel discussion and Q&A
4:45pm Closing remarks
11am Opening remarks
11:15am Mariam Elnozahy & AZ OOR
12:15pm Stefan Tiron
1pm Lunch
2pm Erik Martinson
3pm Iris Long
4pm Panel discussion and Q&A
4:45pm Closing remarks