LIVE FUTURES: Future Toolbox - Beyond the Bug-out Bag (ON DEMAND)

LIVE FUTURES

Every Saturday and Sunday afternoon of Liveworks dive into LIVE FUTURES, a series of curated public conversations that explore the pivotal role of artists in defining the new civic life we are entering. In this sustained period of disruption and change, LIVE FUTURES offers radical new thinking and investigates ways to build a more empowered and equitable world.

All LIVE FUTURES events will be held live in-venue at Carriageworks and will also be live streamed on Vimeo and embedded on our website. Accessible to national and global audiences, LIVE FUTURES will complement the voices of artists with those of specialists from other disciplines in order to dive deeply into the possibilities of our future world.
All the events in the LIVE FUTURES Series will be available on demand for 7 days after they air, through our digital experimental art channel LIVE ON-THE-LINE. Each event goes for 1 and half hours.

Future Toolbox: Beyond the Bug-out Bag
Curated by Loren Kronemyer

Panellists
Ian Milliss
Dr. Diana Chester
Helen Pynor

What lies beyond the bug-out bag? Our planet is rapidly changing, and so are the tools and skills we need to survive it. Survival tools can take a range of forms, from familiar traditional skills to uncanny techniques borne of challenges, opportunities, and ingenuity.

The relationship between tools and their humans can inform the balance of power and agency that separates dystopia from utopia, in both science fiction and the everyday. How can we learn to identify and wield the right tools for the monumental job of surviving the future?

Join experimental artist Loren Kronemyer as she learns about the novel and fantastic survival tools in the arsenals of three experts from different disciplines. This crash course will see her attempt to transform from a naive dilettante into a capable polymath. Along the way, we will explore how the pragmatics of both hard and soft survival skills can help us navigate the uncanny terrain ahead.