Radical Imaginations - New Eden Opening Symposium (Part 2)

21 October 2023 (Saturday) | 2- 6pm

The opening symposium of New Eden: Science Fiction Mythologies Transformed invited attendees to envision speculative futures and inhabit new worlds informed by Asian mythologies and science fiction.

The second panel of talks, New Myths, considered how Asian mythologies can become generative spaces for imagining something new or different. Sputniko! (British/Japanese multimedia artist, designer and filmmaker) reinvented the East Asian concept of fate in Red Silk of Fate, where the red thread became a reality through scientific intervention in a probable future. Irene Agrivina (Indonesian artist, technologist and co-director of House of Natural Fiber) reimagined Lakshmi from the archives of Indian mythology as an otherworldly giver of nourishment and sustenance in House of Natural Fibre’s Galactica V.2 Dharma Garden. Soe Yu Nwe (Myanmar ceramics artist) speculated on nature’s potential for metamorphosis through the snake as a mythological symbol in Pearlescent White Snake.

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Timeline
00:41 Sputniko! (British/Japanese multimedia artist, designer and filmmaker) reinvents the East Asian concept of fate in Red Silk of Fate
28:39 Irene Agrivina (Indonesian artist, technologist and co-director of House of Natural Fiber) reimagines Lakshmi from the archives of Indian mythology as an otherworldly giver of nourishment and sustenance in House of Natural Fibre’s Galactica V.2 Dharma Garden
45:15 Soe Yu Nwe (Myanmar ceramics artist) speculates on nature’s potential for metamorphosis through the snake as a mythological symbol in Pearlescent White Snake
01:01:11 Q&A moderated by Honor Harger (Vice President, Attractions and ArtScience Museum)