For its third and final assembly, METABOLIC RIFTS unpacks protocols of representation and strategies of support within techno-cultural infrastructures, and articulates with the presentation of minor matter (2016) by Ligia Lewis in DDD - Dias da Dança Festival 2018. Against the backdrop of exhorted nationalisms, increasing autonomy of corporate governance and big data over state control, and the intensification of anxiety underpinning labour deregulation, we propose to engage with the operating principles that organise energy, matter and information in networked capitalism, foregrounding nuanced forms of attention, of institutional critique, and an ethics of sociability.

2.30pm
Opening Statement

2.45pm
Helena Rickett, Acts of Support: Contradictions of Curating and Care

3.45pm
Susana Caló, Can an Institution be militant?

4.45pm
Coffee Break

5.00pm
Ligia Lewis, minor matter (2016).
Venue: Auditorium

6.30pm
Artist talk with Ligia Lewis, Alexandra Balona and Sofia Lemos

7.00pm
Matteo Pasquinelli, The Machines of the Anthropocene: On the Transformation of Labour into Energy and Information

8.00pm
Roundtable discussion moderated by Alexandra Balona and Sofia Lemos

8.30pm
Closing Remarks

*All lectures will be presented in English