Don’t Wake Up!
Future Dreaming in the Arts:
At the Intersection of Aesthetics,
Decolonization and Technology

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MARIETTA KESTING is a media, art and cultural theorist. Since September 2024, Kesting she is the leader of the FWF project: Don't Wake Up! Future Dreaming in the Arts: At the Intersection of Aesthetics, Decolonization and Technology at the Music and Arts Private University, Vienna; and since 2022 she is part of the research team of the Institute for Cultural Inquiry ICI, Berlin and was a lecturer at the Institute for Arts and Media at the University of Potsdam. Current work focuses on immersion, postcolonialism and media; artificial intelligence and co-writing with machines; documentary methods, archives and artistic interventions. Most recently published: Human after Man ed. together with S. Witzgall, diaphanes, Zurich, Berlin.


BETTINA MALCOLMESS is a writer and artist based in Johannesburg, where they teach at Wits School of Arts. Their artistic practice inhabits multivocality and density, embodied research and material investigation. Malcomess’s writing and research looks for new archival vocabularies, ways to rethink the densities of historical material in a present marked by urgent ecological and political questions. Malcomess holds a PhD in film studies from Kings College London.


KATHARINA SCHMITT is a director and playwright in theatre, opera and radio. Her stagings, opera libretti and plays have been performed at Oper Köln, Haus der Kulturen der Welt Berlin, Munich Biennale, Gare du Nord Basel, Festival Musica Strasbourg, the Watermill Center and National Theatre Prague. Her radio plays have been produced and broadcast by Deutschlandradio, ORF, Český Rozhlas and WDR. Schmitt studied theatre directing at the Prague Academy of Arts, where she completed a Ph.D. on the subject of iconoclasm in theatre. Schmitt's artistic practice focusses on the development of new operas as a director and librettist. She has collaborated closely with a range of contemporary composers, including Ondřej Adámek, Juliana Hodkinson, Michal Rataj and Jiří Kadeřábek and was awarded numerous prizes and fellowships.

LOTTI BROCKMANN studies sculpture as well as art and cultural studies at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna. She is interested in the relationship between the sovereign and the popular and explores this from an artistic, curatorial and academic perspective. In 2022, she was one of the curators of the exhibition ‘Sleepy Politics: How to learn about conviviality and alternative life-forms through sleep’ and the accompanying lecture ‘Bodies of Sleep’ at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna. Her artistic practice was nominated for the Nordwestkunst Prize by Kunsthalle Wilhelmshaven and she received the Playground Art Prize 2023. In November 2024 her artistic position will be presented as a solo booth at the Artissima Art Fair in Turin (IT).

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