Sunday 27th April: Experiments in Utopia, Barbican Centre, London
0xSalon to be discussed in "More-than-Human Togetherness" discourse session
Coming up this weekend, Sunday 27th April:
London’s Barbican Centre is holding a Conservatory Day as part of their Concrete Garden program called Experiments in Utopia.
0xSalon will be discussed during the “More Than Human Togetherness” panel at 3pm:
Join us at this talk to consider how contemporary technology can catalyse collectivity and hack the system of individuality with researchers and writers Gunseli Yalcinkaya, Wassim Z. Alsindi, Carl H. Smith, Joycelyn Longdon, and co-curator Susanna Davies-Crook.
Through the cultivation of the non-profit knowledge community 0xSalon, Wassim has spent the past five years developing collective modes of cultural production and analysis. His own scholarly work, including a forthcoming book, is chiefly concerned with emerging technological utopianisms, and their shadows.
A little preview video, juxtaposing reactionary utopianisms with Mark Fisher’s final writings:
There will also be a short reading of some “governance fictions”, published both on the 0xSalon webjournal and in NOIA Magazine #3: STATES.
And here’s the overall event description:
Join us for a day of talks, performances, films and workshops centred around the history and current evolution of intentional community building. The programme will explore methods of fostering collectivity and ecological connection through the collective practices of dance, music, art-making, design & communal living.
Using a broad definition of Intentional Community across location based co-housing, radical arts collectives and digital communities, we explore topics and philosophies ranging from healing biotopes, free parties & rave culture, polyamorous love, the solidarity economy & decolonising plant relationality. Taking learnings from a lineage of intentional communities, the multidisciplinary programme will also contemplate new structures for speculative collective futures.
Join us!
https://www.barbican.org.uk/whats-on/2025/series/concrete-garden-experiments-in-utopia