Dates: Friday 8 December
Time: 6.30 PM - Close
Place: The Auditorium
Access: There is step-free access via a lift
A reading of writer and artist Michael Salu’s new work Red Earth + a performance of Diamond Power by the Planetary Portals Collective with an accompanying film screening.
Red Earth: Conversing with Dante, Yoruba Metaphysics and Probabilistic Computation is an expansive new text and the source material for Michael Salu’s broader interdisciplinary artistic study, where machine learning is central to various processes to ask whether computational translation can be used to engage alternative cosmologies.
The Planetary Portals Collective will present a multimedia work exploring the relationship between mining and techno-utopian futures. Live storytelling accompanied by a film created with game-engine software, will introduce many hidden details of our world.
6pm: Diabolical drinks
7pm: Reading and performance
9pm: Diamond Disco with Kyprian
Planetary Portals is an interdisciplinary research collective of Michael Salu, Kerry Holden, Casper Laing Ebbensgaard and Kathryn Yusoff which examines the colonial afterlives of extractive industries in southern Africa, drawing attention to their social and environmental costs across the continent.
Michael Salu is a British-born Nigerian writer, artist, filmmaker, editor and creative strategist with an interdisciplinary practice. He runs House of Thought, an artistic research practice and is part of the Planetary Portals Collective.