Artists Dinner at Govanhill Baths
Artists who live and work in the area took part in a discussion to imagine the future; talking about the future of art, communication, health and wellbeing
Art in 2114
Instant art-button
The word ART is too long will be shortened to a more all-encompassing RT for short messaging system
Art is contained in one giant storage mechanism while the few remaining humans are too busy farming to create any new stuff.
Art will take on a more vital role as communication and a form of activism rather than for recreation or entertainment.
Art as part of daily life
Communication will be an artform in the future: Glasgow School of Communication and Citizenship
Commercial art will look the same as it does now (controlled by commerce)
To create is to bring into being what never existed before.
Continued questioning of what art is….
In 2114 art will be both digitally driven and looking to the past, searching for meaning
The shaman will become an increasingly relevant idea in art – response to digital clinical world
Money no longer exists. Art is a form of currency
Will we want or need an artist in residence in the future? How is creativity embedded? Is it a political necessity?
Participation in the creation of art will be commonplace
Art and the political – responding more to subjects that impact on society – a movement beyond representation.
The value structure of art will change
Diversity will remain
Movement away from the art relic
Art will be equally as terrible as it is now
Communication:
Abbreviated and amalgamated languages
Not in English
We will all speak Chinese
Attitude – language – technology – dialect
Communication through high-tech clothing: Messaging belt, receiver gloves, thought-hat, sms-shoes
Physical communication continues while immaterial virtual interaction advances. These things move at different speeds. Changes in technology mean changes in communication. Technology as an extension of human evolution; virtual evolution.
Will we reach a TIPPING POINT?
What will a healthy community feel like in 2114?
Connected and empowered
Happy
Greater equality
Feels like eating salad now
Healthy attitudes
Wellbeing pod: transforms any illness and negativity into positive energy like CO2 >trees>O2
Amish people of 2114: Robot-Horse and Cart
Scottish Asian fusion feels normal
Mainstream health will be more medicalised. In response more people seek alternatives.
Will we give up on science?
A sustainable community – what will the challenges be?
Main pool used to farm tilapia and grow salad. With floating theatre or theatre on stilts?
No longer hostile to immigrant communities. Accept that community is in constant flux.
Will communities be bigger or smaller?
How will we eat together?
Comfort. Ownership. Loyalty
The Baths:
“Having a place that could be anything is amazing. Once it becomes that thing is the potential lost?”
What is it about water? Floating, space, gravity, oxygen, focus, relaxation, element.
