Recursive Futures … Precarious Crossings: “heavy as water more fit for gills than lungs”

Speech

Lecturers

Mikkel Rørbo , Jessica Edwards

Date

  • 05 September 2025– 14:30–15:30 Kunstuniversität Linz, Linz, OO, Austria (Internationales Forschungszentrum Kulturwissenschaften, Kunstuniversität Linz in Wien)

Keywords

Philosophy, Decolonial Theory, Sound Art, Sonics, Racial Capitalism, Political Theory

Description

In this conversation, Jessica Edwards’ presentation on the temporal vacuoles of fugitivity, explored through the historical context of the Transatlantic Middle Passage and the contemporary Middle Passage of the illegalised precarious crossings, forms the starting point. Through conversation with researcher Mikkel Rørbo, the two will consider the sounding of bodies, the sharing of embodied knowledges, and the entanglements of racial capitalism, histories and futurities while reflecting on the manifold themes presented through the films of The Otolith Group and Black Quantum Futurism.

Title of Event

Unsafe+Sounds Festival

Location

Address

  • Kunstuniversität Linz, Linz, OO, Austria
  • Reindlstraße 16
  • 4040 Linz
  • Austria

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Published By: Mikkel Rørbo | Universität für Angewandte Kunst Wien | Publication Date: 08 September 2025, 13:12 | Edit Date: 08 September 2025, 13:12