The Last Resident & Subconscious Society

The Last Resident & Subconscious Society
Buch- und Filmpräsentation

How can alternative timelines in our contemporaneity, one of which Victoria Browne (The Last Resident, 2016) identifies in speculating on feminist temporalities, help us to “make the time to really listen, to make our own selves and temporalities strange?”
Rosa Barba’s film Subconscious Society imagines a re-inhabiting of abandoned places in a parallel present or indeterminate future. Set at the end of the industrial era, this paradigm shift is represented in the form of an isolated community, whose protagonists make a final attempt at archiving objects from the past.

Noit Banai, art historian and critic, Vienna
Rebecca Carson, writer, Royal College of Art and Goldsmiths, University of London
Ingrid Pui Yee Chu, Manager & Special Project Co- Curator, Booked: Hong Kong Art Book Fair; Tai Kwun Contemporary
Gerald Raunig, philosopher, eipcp and Zürich University of the Arts
Verina Gfader, artist and researcher, City University of Hong Kong

Verina Gfader et al.: The Last Resident. The Contemporary Condition series 12. Copublished with Aarhus University and ARoS Art Museum. Sternberg Press, Berlin 2019.

Subconscious Society, a Feature (I 2014). 40 min, English, no subtitles