RESURGANCE | Words for the Future

‘If our future is in ruins, Resurgence is the possibility of cultivating and weaving again what has been lost in the name of progress.’ Isabelle Stengers brings forth Resurgence as an attitude to bring back collective processes within science (and beyond) that attend to situations in their full complexity. Showing the human body’s relationality and interdependency with other critters or objects is central to the choreographic work of Ola Maciejewska, which echoes through the artistic gesture she made in responds to Resurgence. Words for the Future is a many-voiced series of ten words that point to the possible imaginations of various futures. Ten people from diverse fields of knowledge were asked to propose a word for the future through an essay, while an artist in whose work this particular world seemed to already be latently present, was invited to respond to it. Bringing both perspectives together in one publications, each issue becomes a dialogue around one world. RESURGENCE is issue #8 in the series Words for the Future, curated and edited by dramaturg Nienke Scholts. (the full series (limited edition) is available through San Serriffe aswell)