About

and the horizon told me nothing is a practice-based research project presented in the form of a publication and video work.

Developed through a creative interdisciplinary approach - combining theory, empirical research methods and practice-based discovery - this project explores the proposition that contemporary conditions are generating experiences of disorientation. The work is developed through examining emerging forecasting practices (Prediction markets and Etsy Wiches) as cultural mirrors and the production of an experimental video work, using personal archival fragments.

Produced as a Capstone project for MASc in Complex Systems and Problems at London Interdisciplinary School. Supervised by María Angélica Madero.

Context

This reseach project emerges from the proposition that contemporary conditions are generating experiences of disorientation impacting a sense of the future. Using the horizon as a conceptual metaphor, this is framed as not merely a spatial disorientation, but temporal and phenomenological.

The search for bearing within a loss of orientation is explored using the reflective and reflexive qualities of cultural artefacts which offer waytinding guidance. These cultural mirrors are held up as a methodological lens.

The emerging forecasting practices of Etsy Witches and Prediction markets are treated as mirrors which make visible the desire for orientation, both individually and collectively.

Alongside these, a practice-based work explores the phenomenological experience of seeking orientation within a digitally mediated life. Through moving image, archival fragments and a perpetually searching frame, it asks how this disorientation is lived and felt.

In opening up multiple outlooks to approach contemporary conditions of orientation, the project gestures towards a multiplicity of futures emerging on the horizon.

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