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Travel Bags

On April 11th 2024, a group of artists, theorists, designers and curators met at the Centre Wallonie Bruxelles (CWB). Some travelled across countries, continents and hemispheres, while others arrived on foot. In the CWB theatre, they shared stories and unravelled urgent questions about living across new frontiers of space, community, ecology and technology. How do we situate ourselves in today’s complex and ever expanding, technologically mediated space? How do we find one another (whoever we are), once we are there?

‘See You There: 9 Pockets for Celestial Bodies/Terrestrial Beings’, responds to the tradition of publishing conference proceedings, offering a generous carrier bag for the concepts, images and questions gathered through the bilingual (English and French spoken) colloquium ‘Celestial Bodies/Terrestrial Beings.’ Published as a series of postcards and an online syllabus, it is the first experiment by See you there, which seeks to consider how knowledge weaves diverse paths across the globe.

In each of the pockets, readers will find tags that allow them to travel another pathway through the content, along with additional reading material to guide further research. Taking the form of postcards, each pocket is an invitation to connect with See you there’s globally dispersed community.

Pocket 1: Lost bodies Pocket 1: Lost bodies Pocket 2: Horror vacui Pocket 2: Horror vacui Pocket 3: Fertile Cosmos Pocket 3: Fertile Cosmos Pocket 4: Eternal eclipse Pocket 4: Eternal eclipse Pocket 5: Future organisms Pocket 5: Future organisms Pocket 6: Alien wayfinding Pocket 6: Alien wayfinding Pocket 7: Unknown unknowns Pocket 7: Unknown unknowns Pocket 8: Control systems Pocket 8: Control systems Pocket 9: Tender ruins Pocket 9: Tender ruins