The Future Futures Talk Show – Through the Lens

Nordic Youth Symposium 2024
Place: Konstfack, Svarta Havet

Welcome to an afternoon of presentations, panel discussions and interviews looking at the film medium’s potential for reversing gazes and recentering critical dialogues.

Which stories matter today? How can we tell them using video and film?

Welcome to The Future Futures Talk Show, an afternoon of conversations between young creatives, artists and filmmakers, discussing how film can redirect our gazes and help us read the present.

Future Futures brings together thirty young adults based in Sweden, Norway and Finland who are the members of Index Teen Advisory Board, PRAKSIS Teen Advisory Board and PUBLICS Youth Advisory Board. As part of the network, the boards address how institutions reach wider audiences, and more specifically, how they engage and interest young people in the arts.

This year, the members of Future Futures are looking at the moving image, using artistic methods to dismantle or challenge normative image culture. They have considered contemporary and historical references, consulting the work of Palestinian filmmakers, climate activists and civil rights defenders to explore how video has been instrumental in protest movements and the fight for political change. The groups have met with artists and curators, discussing how technological developments of the last decades have shifted the premises for how, and by whom, video is being recorded and distributed.

They invite you to The Future Futures Talk Show to think collectively about how video can be used to amplify underrepresented voices and diversify narratives within and beyond art institutions.

Future Futues is an international network of young advisory boards that gather 16–21-year-olds with a wide variety of experiences and expertise. It looks to push traditions of distribution – defining new channels for art and seeking exciting new models for the art world; models that reach wider, more inclusive demographics of users and audiences. The network features Index Teen Advisory Board, PRAKSIS Teen Advisory Board and Publics Youth Advisory Board. These boards offer paid positions for young people who actively support decision-making, evaluation and programming at Index (Stockholm), PRAKSIS (Oslo) and Publics (Helsinki). It is a reciprocal learning program where participants gain access to art professional contexts and develop organisational skills whilst shaping the institutions of our joint future.

SYMPOSIUM SCHEDULE:
Saturday 2 November
Konstfack, Svarta Havet

14:00–14:15 Introduction and welcome

14:15–15:15 On Controlling the Narrative
Index Teen Advisory Board (Stockholm) in conversation with artist and activist Roxy Farhat

15:15–15:30 Coffee Break

15:30–16:30 How Exposure Shapes Perspective
PRAKSIS Teen Advisory Board (Oslo) in conversation with curator and producer Malin Hüber

16:30 –16:45 Coffee Break with sandwiches

16:45 –17:45 How to Tell the Present?
PUBLICS Youth Advisory Board (Helsinki) in conversation with artist Vanja Sandell Billström

17:45–18:00 Closing notes

Attending the symposium is free, but you need to book a ticket by sending an email to booking@indexfoundation.se

This symposium with young voices is made with support from Erasmus+ Ungdom and in collaboration with Konstfack.

About the organizing institutions:

INDEX – THE SWEDISH CONTEMPORARY ART FOUNDATION
“Index has a history of more than 40 years behind it. Firstly, with a focus on photography and publishing, and for the last 25 years with contemporary art as its cultural sphere. Index has been extremely important for the artistic context in Stockholm and the art world of northern and central Europe, however Index is not just history. We work with questions of the contemporary, using clear tools and formats.”
www.indexfoundation.se

PRAKSIS
“Praksis is a not-for-profit organisation that works with experienced creative professionals and other bodies to facilitate thematically focused, supportive residencies for local and international practitioners and thinkers. PRAKSIS builds communities linking makers and theorists at all career stages. It does not charge participants, and welcomes applications for each residency from anyone with relevant experience and interests.”
www.praksisoslo.org/

Publics
”Publics is a curatorial agency with a dedicated library, event space and reading room in Vallila Helsinki, known for its industrial working class histories and, more recently, for its influx of divergent artistic and academic communities.”
www.publics.fi