Szikago Pakrel: FUTURE ARCHEOLOGY

Szi-ka-go Pa-kr-el is a space; a polyvocal archeologist of the future; a stitched-together body; a hybrid, semi-robotic creature; a computerized thought that emerges from a rhizomatic and fabulous media collaboration. The blended corpus of audiovisual artefacts is found footage from the past, left behind to be found, discovered, excavated and visited. The fundamental question is: What went wrong? What was left behind? Forms, hopes and memories—detached, deterritorialized, beyond time and place; artefacts floating in a virtual space; an imaginary future.

Szikago Pakrel: FUTURE ARCHEOLOGY is part of the collective artistic research project Fabulation for Future, which reflects on the change of perspectives and new ways of perceiving a world shaken by multiple crises in the context of the Anthropocene. In particular, climate change in conjunction with the novel coronavirus has led to controversial debates about the future and exposed the vulnerability of the human-Earth relationship. Considering this background, the project’s artistic research process designs a collective, critical rethinking of the human condition with the goal of finding artistic ways to create postanthropocentric worldviews for a sustainable future in which human and non-human species can coexist in sympoiesis.