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29.09.2025 @./studio3
New Planetary Imaginaries
by Liam Young
Following centuries of colonization, globalization, and never-ending economic extraction, we have remade the world from the scale of the cell to the tectonic plate. The dystopias of science fiction that previously read as speculative cautionary tales are now the stage sets of the everyday as many of us live out our lives in a disaster film playing in real-time. In this seemingly futureless moment, the storytelling performance ‘Planetary Imaginaries’ will take us on a sci-fi safari through a screenscape of alternative and hopeful worlds. Slipping between fiction and documentary, the journey will be both an extraordinary image of tomorrow, and an urgent illumination of the environmental questions that are facing us today.
In the Year Twenty, Twenty Five: Three Projects
by Nic Clear
2025 has been a very strange and dangerous year, the wider political climate has seen the further rise of the ‘populist’ ethno-nationalism, reversals in climate policy promise an acceleration in environmental catastrophe, and the unregulated rise of LLM’s alongside the greater implementation of surveillance technologies seeks to threaten our identities, our creativity and our rights to privacy. In education we have witnessed the freedoms and existence of Universities challenged as they become seen as neo-liberal businesses whose sole directive is profit.However, against this backdrop, or perhaps because of it, Twenty, Twenty Five has given me the opportunity to develop three separate pieces of work that share a common speculative armature; projects that involve laser scanning, film and animation, installation, and performance that reflect some of the current issues of climate, environment, heritage, and the utopian opportunities that still undoubtedly exist.The three projects are one that has been completed, a second that is underway now and a third that is due in November, none of these projects will change the world but they are helping me to survive in it, perhaps they can help you too.
29.09.2025 @./studio3
New Planetary Imaginaries
by Liam Young
Following centuries of colonization, globalization, and never-ending economic extraction, we have remade the world from the scale of the cell to the tectonic plate. The dystopias of science fiction that previously read as speculative cautionary tales are now the stage sets of the everyday as many of us live out our lives in a disaster film playing in real-time. In this seemingly futureless moment, the storytelling performance ‘Planetary Imaginaries’ will take us on a sci-fi safari through a screenscape of alternative and hopeful worlds. Slipping between fiction and documentary, the journey will be both an extraordinary image of tomorrow, and an urgent illumination of the environmental questions that are facing us today.
In the Year Twenty, Twenty Five: Three Projects
by Nic Clear
2025 has been a very strange and dangerous year, the wider political climate has seen the further rise of the ‘populist’ ethno-nationalism, reversals in climate policy promise an acceleration in environmental catastrophe, and the unregulated rise of LLM’s alongside the greater implementation of surveillance technologies seeks to threaten our identities, our creativity and our rights to privacy. In education we have witnessed the freedoms and existence of Universities challenged as they become seen as neo-liberal businesses whose sole directive is profit.However, against this backdrop, or perhaps because of it, Twenty, Twenty Five has given me the opportunity to develop three separate pieces of work that share a common speculative armature; projects that involve laser scanning, film and animation, installation, and performance that reflect some of the current issues of climate, environment, heritage, and the utopian opportunities that still undoubtedly exist.The three projects are one that has been completed, a second that is underway now and a third that is due in November, none of these projects will change the world but they are helping me to survive in it, perhaps they can help you too.
