Description: A collection of essays offering a creative look at crises past, present, future, and speculative.
Starting with the shared experience of crisis brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic and a planet sieged by disaster, Imaginable Worlds transforms tragedy into a framework for research and art, imagining a shared world beyond a global experience of emergency. Produced by the Smart Museum of Art and the Projects/Processes essay collection series, an initiative launched by the Serendipity Arts Foundation in New Delhi, this volume brings together the voices of artists, authors, and public intellectuals from a range of fields and locations. Suraj Yengde, named one of the "25 Most Influential Young Indians" by GQ Magazine; Siyanda Mohutsiwa, the brain behind the viral hashtag #IfAfricaWasABar; and Ho Tzu Nyen, the acclaimed artist behind the ongoing Critical Dictionary of Southeast Asia project, are among the diverse contributors who have come together to critically engage with ideas and practices that engage with a partially known or unknown world. Inviting fresh creative looks at crises past, imminent, immediate, and speculative, Imaginable Worlds considers questions of survival and invites us to imagine new modes of sensing, knowing, and dwelling.Brief description:
Orianna Cacchione is deputy director and curator of exhibitions at the University of Richmond Museums. She has curated and cocurated solo exhibitions of Tang Chang, Tiffany Chung, Abigial DeVille, Shubigi Rao, Cauleen Smith, Haegue Yang, Samson Young, and Zhang Peili as well as thematic exhibitions including Monochrome Multitudes and The Allure of Matter: Material Art from China. She coedited The Allure of Matter: Materiality Across Chinese Art and Imaginable Worlds: Art, Crisis, and Global Futures.