Departing from the concepts of horror, speculation, the unknown, and the future, the summit explores: What happens when contemporary artists summon the ghosts of antiquity or monsters beyond the boundaries of time and space? How can the past beckon us through the obscurity of the unknowable and towards a multitude of Futures? And how this may alter perceptions of reality?

From May 18 to May 24, the audience was invited to a series of talks by distinguished practitioners exploring our concepts of reality and existence in the world, free from established relations and a world without us, a non-human world in opposition to an Anthropocentric one.

Speakers: Coco Fusco, Santiago Sierra, Pamela Karimi, Xiaoyu Weng, Bo Wang, Shumon Basar, Jason Babak Mohaghegh, Tania Bruguera, and Ghazel.

Curated by Erfan Ghiasi and Una Mathiesen Gjerde / In collaboration with Pachinko by Mathilde Carbel and Kristian Schrøder.

The Tehran Summit and Pachinko are inviting audiences from different fields of the arts and philosophy to register to access each talk digitally. For Oslo-based audiences, the program will also be screened live in Pachinko’s exhibition space. Across the span of a week, every night will feature a distinguished speaker delving into the intricacies of the theme.