"Future Metaphysics" was originally commisioned as a series of experimental texts corresponding to each room of the Moscow Museum of Modern Art. A series of events now generate from each of the book’s chapters, and unfold across divergent contexts of academic and cultural institutions. LA artists Scarlett Kim, Eric Fanghanel and Parch Es, respond to Avanessian’s activities in the form of microcultural productions: performative strategies, relational scores and media interventions.
The collision and intersection between them launches Future Metaphysics, repeatedly and unrelentingly, in a multiplicity of directions. The series captures not only the proposals of the book but the dynamics of the writing process and institutional logics at play. Avanessian and artists contaminate and alienate each other, abolishing the distinction between theory and practice, and rewriting the terms of the “book launch.” A web of connections extend outward from the book like tendrils of slime that assemble and disassemble contingently: from Germany to the US, from Thomas Mann House to Los Angeles universities, from major institutions to grassroots interventions, and from academic environment to art installation.
From Villa Aurora & Thomas Mann House
INTRODUCTION: METAPHYSICS
@ Hauser & Wirth
ON SUBSTANCE AND ACCIDENT
@ Thomas Mann House
ON FORM AND MATTER
@ USC
ON: LIFE AND DEATH
@ you and me, we’re virtually there Pavillion hosted by The Mortuary as part of The Wrong Biennial
ON: CHANGING TIMES
@ CalArts
ON: TRUTH
@ Coaxial Arts
ON: REALITY
@ El Clasificado
ON: POLITICS
@ NAVEL
ON: SPECULATION
@ SCI-Arc