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Socially. What\u2019s going to be the best of 2014? Any possible response would elude a utopian optimism about the good things set to come. There\u2019s been so much bad this 2013 that the simple wish for one\u2019s desires to be fulfilled wouldn\u2019t be enough to change anything. There\u2019s an intersection between prospective science and the writing of scripts for films. The cutting moment for both is the \u201cscenario\u201d, the description of a possible situation in the near future. In his essay from 1998 \u201cShould the Future Help the Past?\u201d the artist Liam Gillick commented: \u201cWhat\u2019s the scenario? A constantly mutating sequence of possibilities. Add a morsel of difference and the results slip out of control, shift the location for action and everything is different\u201d. It\u2019s the logic of What if?<\/em> the dynamics of what would happen if? <\/p>\n Prospective science isn\u2019t, however, as popular as Hollywood films are. Governments, on their part, endeavour to mitigate the effects of the future. There\u2019s constant talk of the future, about the economic crisis and they tell us: 2014 will be better. Do we have to take a leap of faith? On the other hand, Myths of the Near Future<\/em> is a book by J.G. Ballard and a great title for the current times when what prevails is the present, a so-called \u201cpresentism\u201d and with it the total difficulty of imagining tomorrow. In times of bonanza they called this present \u201cliving day to day\u201d. Faced with this \u201cpresentism\u201d, work by people like Ballard ends up being of vital importance, authors of soft-core <\/em> science fiction set not in a galactic future so much as one that is proximate, close and strange at the same time. Another artefact to consider here is Minority Report<\/em>, the film by Steven Spielberg from 2002, based on a story by Philip K. Dick: minds full of extrasensory perceptions capable of having premonitions, precognitions and visions of the future. Artists of anticipation. Anticipation. A beautiful and mysterious word. <\/p>\n In art. Without Documenta in Kassel and the Venice Biennale everything points to the Biennale of Sao Paulo in Brazil. Here, however, it\u2019s hard to identify the best of the year beyond the medium of the exhibition. I remember a decade ago when there was continuous talk of \u201calternatives to the exhibition\u201d or of \u201cexhibitions without exhibitions\u201d. Now we are incapable of listing or remembering a talk, a performance, a concert or an art gathering. We keep lists and immediately forget them. What we need are alternatives to the present, and also perhaps alternatives to the exhibition. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Socially. What\u2019s going to be the best of 2014? Any possible response would elude a utopian optimism about the good things set to come. There\u2019s been so much bad this…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1261,"featured_media":8506,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6783],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n