As a part of "Happening" (http://happening.nai.nl/en), a two months program at the Netherlands Architecture Institute (NAi) in Rotterdam a full evening program on the topic of provisional future is set-up on Saturday 19 April 2008, at 20.00

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COME AND VISIT the Provisional Future. Join in and observe, participate, discuss, relax, take notes and look around. It’s like a real city!

No one thinks the future will be shiny and rosy, but what will the future cities look like? We have gone to some of the most significant places in the new Europe to see further into the future then many have yet been able to do!

Together we will walk into the unknown, the fantastic, the commonplace!

WHAT TO EXPECT: easel demonstrations, non-existing museums, provisional cars, nomadic mosques, always-to-be building sites, back to the future monuments, future telling and more improvised re-enactments.

WHAT NOT TO EXPECT: super technology and digital effects, spaceships and orbiting space stations, monsters, Supermen, aliens and UFOs.

See for yourselves what a provisional future could look like right at the NAI!

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With participation of and works by:

PETER LANG: Rerunning the Future
DAVID MALJKOVIC: Scenes for a New Heritage
ALENKA GREGORIC: The provisional museum of contemporary art
ANA DZOKIC AND MARC NEELEN (STEALTH.unlimited): Open Futures, still here to be claimed
BORIS MITIC: Pretty Dyana, a Gypsy recycling saga
JOSE MIGUEL ORTIZ PORTAS: Learning how to optimise
DUBRAVKA SEKULIC AND IVAN KUCINA: Roof Extensions and River Test Sites
AZRA AKSAMIJA: Nomadic Mosque
MARJETICA POTRC AND SRDJAN JOVANOVIC WEISS: Fences of Balkanisation
PIET VOLLAARD: Quality kitsch
WIETSKE MAAS: Psychic Consultancy on Lost and Probable Pasts and Futures
MARJETICA POTRC: The Struggle for Spatial Justice, Parallel Cities, The Future is Now

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Saturday 19 April, 20.00 - 23.00 hrs
Language: English
Entrance: 5 euro
Reservations: www.nai.nl/register
Happening: http://happening.nai.nl/en

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Set-up by Azra Aksamija, Bojana Cvejic, Ana Dzokic, Alenka Gregoric, Peter Lang and Marc Neelen, as a part of ongoing "Lexicon for Provisional Futures". The group comes from the fields of visual arts, performing arts, curating, theory and architecture. The Lexicon for Provisional Futures seeks to encompass those terms and concepts that could redefine the European city and its urban culture, with an emphasis on thinking about the future "provisionally", with less utopianist grandiloquence. The Lexicon, is part of umbrella project "Europe Lost and Found", initiated through the Lost Highway Expedition in 2006.