In extension of our collaboration with The Tehran Summit, BO is proud to announce the lineup for its fourth edition of the summit, titled …And The Rest Were Those Nomads Who Found The Black Holes.
The Tehran Summit 03 will probe a geohistorical terrain where the anthropocenic concepts of history, chronology, and logical order are replaced by embracing a full spectrum of forces at play; human, non-human, organic, and inorganic, all caught in the flux of creation and dissolution. In this narrative, space is not merely a backdrop for human production but a dynamic construction of relations where beings, materials, and non-definable forces converge, each contributing and complicit to an ever-evolving Chaosmos.
Scheduled from May 19–25, the audience is invited to a series of talks by distinguished practitioners exploring entangled layers of geography, history, space, and time to map out new exits and potentials – those black holes where new desires and possibilities emerge.
Speakers: Reza Negarestani, Mohammad Salemy, Carl Olsson, Renzo Martens, Shuddhabrata Sengupta (Raqs Media Collective), Hito Steyerl, and Dora Garcia
Curated by Erfan Ghiasi and Una Mathiesen Gjerde / In collaboration with BO—The Association of Visual Artists Oslo, and The New Centre for Research & Practice.
The Tehran Summit and BO are inviting audiences from different fields of the arts and philosophy to register to join each talk digitally.
For Oslo-based audiences, the program will also be screened live in BO’s loft.
Program
A conversation between Reza Negarestani & Mohammad Salemy: “Cyclonopedia revisited: 2007–23”
May 19, 8:30pm Tehran Time / 6pm Oslo Time
Carl Olsson: “Space is An Angler And We Are The Fish”
May 20, 8:30pm Tehran Time / 6pm Oslo Time
Renzo Martens: “What’s up with Renzo Martens? Attempting to connect museums to the plantations that funded them. (2010-2025)”
May 22, 8:30pm Tehran Time / 6pm Oslo Time
Shuddhabrata Sengupta (Raqs Media Collective): “Restless Contemplation”
May 23, 8:30pm Tehran Time / 6pm Oslo Time
Hito Steyerl: “Art in The Age of Authoritarian Chatbots”
May 24, 8:30pm Tehran Time / 6pm Oslo Time
Dora Garcia: “Transhistorical Transoceanic Transfeminisms”
May 25, 8:30pm Tehran Time / 6pm Oslo Time
About The Tehran Summit
Co-founded by Erfan Ghiasi and Ghazel in 2022, the Tehran Summit is an annual online event that takes place each May during the absence of the Sun in the Middle East.
Acknowledgements
The fourth Tehran Summit has been made possible with the generous support of the Fritt Ord Foundation and the Arts Council Norway.
