Mankind will more or less die out in 2222. Almost everything will be destroyed. Only some ruins, stories and a book by Édouard Glissant remain. Around the year 3333, the population of humans has grown again to a few tens of thousands. They build their communities based on this book by Glissant–because it is all that was left. I have friends in 3333. They wrote me a letter and sent some objects, drawings and pictures.

As an artist and experimental spatial designer, Torben Körschkes searches for new languages, dialects, rituals, mythologies and politics in arrangements of stories, materials and people. He is currently resident at INSTITUTO. His work is funded by the EU, Goethe Institute and the Ministry of Culture and Media Hamburg.

https://heftkollektiv.net/

Exhibition

The mouth, restricted, rehearses experiences of a violent invasion. The burying of speech, the convulsion of words, the condensation of the voice, the repetition.
A scream implodes. A scream explodes.
Particles tear through space to be survival and creation. Indigo blue conflates materialization. The dense, implacable, mutant chorus incites the becoming. The emergence of the future erases the previous act.
"One must destroy to begin again". Text by James Stinson

Workshop

Registrations are open to ‘LEAL – Self-build workshop’, an architectural training course organised by INSTITUTO. In its second edition, the workshop grew out of an awareness of the precarious conditions in Porto’s urban interstices. The course will take place in Bairro do Leal neighbourhood, where the current state of abandonment demonstrates the potential of these areas and their interconnections with the wider context for intervention using self-build methodologies.

More info here.