Future Perfect

This initiative mobilizes art as a tool for speculative world-building, enabling the active visualization of futures liberated from human-centric and colonial legacies.

Dominant cultural narratives actively suppress our capacity to conceptualize existence outside of capitalist and hierarchical systems, limiting political futurism to linear technological progression.

We propose the artistic imagination as a vital epistemic framework capable of generating viable alternatives to capitalist and colonial structures. By positioning the future as a malleable site of inquiry rather than a fixed destination, we enable the collective rehearsal of non-hierarchical existences. This approach validates speculative fantasy as a rigorous political methodology, creating tangible space for perspectives historically marginalized by techno-centric narratives. Through this lens, the festival operates as an active generator of social technologies, demonstrating that the capacity to visualize diverse, decentralized futures serves as the necessary prerequisite for their material construction.