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Lecture with Shona Illingworth
In the framework of Situations (making) #11
Open and free activity with limited capacity
Language: English with simultaneous translation into Catalan
Open lecture of the Santa Mònica collective learning and research programme Situations (making) #11 in the framework of the exhibition Boom Crash Candy Crush
As part of Situations (making), some of the people invited to the course will also give a series of public lectures that expand on the debates guiding this edition to share them with a wider audience. Taking the concept of brain rot as a starting point, these sessions will explore the relationships between contemporary digital cultures, attention economies, technological infrastructures and the forms of power that shape our everyday experience of the internet. A public programme that complements the course's collective learning process and invites reflection, from diverse perspectives, on the political, cultural and material effects of contemporary hyperconnectivity.
With the participation of Shona Illingworth
Shona Illingworth is a Danish-Scottish artist based in London, UK. Trained by her long-term investigations into the dynamic processes of memory, amnesia and cultural erasure, her work examines the devastating impact of the accelerating military, industrial and environmental transformations of airspace and outer space, and the implications for human rights. She co-founded the Airspace Tribunal in 2018 with human rights lawyer Nick Grief. She now co-directs the Airspace Tribunal with philosopher, writer and sociologist Renata Salecl.
Recent solo exhibitions of her work include Topologies of Air, at Cukrarna, Ljubljana (2025), and Les Abattoirs, held at the Musée – Frac Occitanie, Toulouse (2022-23), the Bahrain National Museum, Manama (2022), and The Power Plant, Toronto (2022). Illingworth was a recipient of the Stanley Picker Fellowship and was shortlisted for the Jarman Award (2016). She is a professor of Art, Film and Media at the University of Kent and currently an Imperial War Museum Associate, Artist Fellow, for the UKRI Polarities Network and sits on the international editorial boards of Digital War and Memory, Mind and Media.
A substantial monograph on her work, Topologies of Air (Shona Illingworth; Anthony Downey [Ed.]) was published by Sternberg Press and The Power Plant in 2022.
