The free two-day workshop invites artists, photographers, journalists, students, and researchers to explore the narrative structures and techniques of conspiracy theories through an ecosystemic world- building methodology. Participants will investigate how conspiracy narratives evolve, multiply, and mutate within online ecologies, aiming to appropriate these viral storytelling techniques to craft alternative holistic worlds and counter-narratives.
The workshop will be led by Juan Diaz Bohorquez, the European Director of the World Building Institute Berlin/Los Angeles. He is a developer of narrative design and world-building methodologies, which he has applied across films and media, social impact projects, and science-art collaborations for the past 20 years.
Funded by the Alexander Tutsek-Foundation.
The symposium and the World-Building-Workshop take place on the occasion of the exhibition TACTICS AND MYTHOLOGIES: ANDREA OREJARENA & CALEB STEIN and as part of the event series "Viral Halucinations".
Date: 14.09.2024–15.09.2024
11 a.m.–1 p.m.,
2 p.m.–5 p.m
Group: max. 20 participants + 6 invited experts
Cost: free
Language: English
Access: via short application (1 page) to:
gramotke[#]deichtorhallen.de
Program
Saturday, 14.09.2024
11 a.m.–12 p.m.:
Introduction: World Building Method
12–1 p.m.:
Exploration of the Visual Archive of Conspiracy
1–2 p.m.:
Lunch & Coffee Break
The guided explorations will be a hands on analysis of existing Conspiracy Narratives, their structures, scales and ecologies.
2–3:30 p.m.:
EXPLORATION 1: Scales of Emergent Conspiracy Narratives.
3:30–4:30 p.m.:
EXPLORATION 2: Narrative Ecologies: Patterns and Mutations.
4:30–5 p.m.:
From Conspiracy to Counter-Narratives.
Sunday, 15.09.2024
11 a.m.–1 p.m.:
WORLD BUILDING 1: Mapping Counter-Conspiracy
1–2 p.m.
Lunch & Coffee Break
2–4 p.m.:
WORLD BUILDING 2: World Building Ecosystems of Counter-Conspiracy
4–5 p.m.:
CLOSING SESSION: Building Counter-Conspiracies