The Future and Other Fictions dares to imagine what might be to come for us all.
One of the great disappointments of living in the future is how backwards-looking it can feel. The richest tech bros of Silicon Valley are chasing the same dreams that excited science fiction readers of the 1950s. Colonising Mars? Robot servants? Anyone still promising us these quaint fantasies is clearly selling something.
For many artists, she says, imagining a future with themselves in it is already a radical act. The exhibition includes costumes from the 2022 superhero filmThe film’s costume designer, Ruth E. Carter, was, says O’Brien, “brought on to a massive Disney blockbuster film and said OK, I really want to make sure that I can see my culture within this”.
Siva and Carter have both been inspired by Afrofuturism, and though their work is clearly very different, both promote the idea that the future can be what we make it, says O’Brien. “You don’t have to think that the future’s already written ... If you want to make change you can.”Her fellow curators emphasise that point: the show is designed in part to shift the relationship we all have with our own futures.
You could argue that the last decade or so has seen the literary world trying to do just that. The rise of cli-fi – speculative fiction that imagines a future in which climate change runs rampant – is a call to make serious changes now.“The idea ... was that these kinds of dystopian visions ... would scare us straight,” says Young.
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