Dean Sully, Cecilie Gravesen, Ariel Li, Katherine Beckwith, Blithe Germ, Ivan Kashdan, Jimmy Loizeau, Hannah Morgan, Kay Richardson, Yuli Serfaty, Misa Tamura, & Jo Volley

You are invited to an exclusive preview of the on-line exhibition that is under development until its installation at UCL… when COVID allows.

The exhibition has developed as a trans-disciplinary experimental lab in a speculative practice arranged by this year’s Scientist in Residence Dean Sully. A series of online exchanges during the COVID-19 lockdown have contributed to the fabulation of exhibits, fabricated to reflect objects that inhabit a selection of dystopian future worlds (described in fictional and non-fictional accounts of the Anthropocene).

The exhibition features a selection of objects that have travelled back to us from different future worlds that engage with critical debates and possible outcomes of the Misanthropocene. These objects are interpreted in the exhibition by a diverse range of ‘curators’, which reveal contradictory descriptions about objects and the future worlds that they inhabit.

We are continuing to work on the exhibition content, so we encourage you to comment and propose your own exhibits to be included in both the online and offline IRL exhibition.

Examples of the exhibited objects:

Mulgan, T., 2011. Ethics for a Broken World, Imagining Philosophy After Catastrophe. Durham: Acume.
MB 2973.14 'Survival Lottery' ticket (21st century)

This future is our broken world, where resources are insufficient to meet everyone's basic needs. everyone is entered into a periodic lottery, the winners of which receive sufficient resources to survive, the losers are left with nothing and do not survive. Everyone has an equal chance in the lottery to survive, but not everyone can.

Curator; Christopher Fairfax (Anglican priest), 3493 CE (Year of Our Risen Lord 1468) late-Anthropocene [Robert Harris, 2019. The Second Sleep]
MB 2109.7 Blasphemous object (pre-Apocalypse, probably 21st century, London, England)

The defining symbol of Pre-Apocalypse hubris and blasphemy of the ancients: the serpent's apple with a bite taken out of it, 'Ye shall not eat of it, neither shall yet touch it, lest ye die'. For a long period, possession of such criminal collections, which ran counter to the doctrine of the church, were considered heresy and punishable by harsh ecclesiastical court justice.

Links

Museum of Beyond: https://misanthropocene.wixsite.com/museumofbeyond
Twitter: @museum_beyond, @MuseumofBeyond,  @ObjsofMisanthro