Three interventions – three opportunities to sow the seeds of Future 14b

 

The interventions are part of the exhibition Picture (a) City, which is on view at the Museum of Contemporary Art Metelkova (+MSUM) until June 1st this year. By participating in the intervention, you will also receive free admission to the exhibition on the same or the following day.

Saturday, April 5 from 11:00 to 12:30
Thursday, April 24 from 17:00 to 18:30
Friday, May 16 from 17:00 to 18:30

Meeting point: Reception of the Museum of Contemporary Art Metelkova (+MSUM, Maistrova 3)

The emissaries from the Future 14B ask for your help. We travelled back to the past to create the conditions for our future and have thus come full (causal) circle.

Join us in three public interventions to find out to what extent we can intervene in reality and how our city streets, buses, and cafés can shortly transform into a testing ground for enacting post-capitalist alternatives. Utopia as a method – unplanned journey through the city (dérive) as a strategy – economy as play.

Each time we will meet at the reception of +MSUM and then go to the second floor, to the iron cage of bureaucracy surrounded by an anarchive of relics from a future past. From there, carrying the collective memory of a future that has not yet occurred, we will embark on a dérive through the city in search of universal basic coffee. We will converse as if Future 14b were already here, a drifting bubble amid capitalist realism, subtly sowing fiction into reality with the help of our relics—perhaps even convincing others to join us and expand our bubble further.

We will conclude our journey in one of Ljubljana’s cafés that has so far successfully resisted gentrification, continuing our conversation over a drink paid for with a universal basic services card.

Come hijack the future with us. All you need is curiosity and openness.

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Future 14b is based on principles of degrowth, ecofeminism, and interspecies justice. It first manifested a year ago in an overgrown construction pit in Bežigrad, managed by the Krater collective.

Future 14b is an autopoietic system. It exists by imagining its own possibility and continually creates itself through its enactment. For it to persist, it must first take root in the collective imagination and then gradually engulf reality.