JUGAAD TIME BOOK LAUNCH

Furtherfield is London’s longest running centre for art and technology. Since 1996 we have developed an international reputation for initiating experiments in artistic co-creation across digital and physical networks. We have continued to invest time and energy in decentralised and distributed p2p practices, fostering new projects with artists, and seizing and challenging debates about the role of art and technology in society. We advocate always for open and playful engagement with people and their technologies, encapsulated in a process of ‘doing it with others’ (DIWO). We have maintained a distinct presence and interconnectedness across networked space whilst remaining grounded in a physical locality, by presenting work through our Gallery and Commons located in the middle of London’s 150-year-old Finsbury Park. Adventurous digital arts experiences radiate from these venues, transforming the urban park into a platform where people can explore how they want live in our globally-connected world.

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<H2><SPAN>Furtherfield are honoured to invite you to the book launch of </SPAN><A HREF="https://www.dukeupress.edu/jugaad-time" TARGET="_blank" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Jugaad Time by Amit S. Rai</A></H2>
<P>In India, the practice of jugaad—finding workarounds or everyday, usually non-technical hacks to solve problems—emerged out of subaltern strategies of negotiating poverty, discrimination, and violence. Yet it is now celebrated in management literature as 'disruptive innovation'. In this book Rai considers how these time-efficiencies always exceed their role in neoliberal and authoritarian postcolonial economies and are put into motion by subaltern practitioners themselves.</P>
<P>On Sat 27 Apr from 14.00-16.00 Rai will introdue this important work to guests followed by a Q and A session with Furtherfield Co-Founding Director, Marc Garrett - with plenty for time for discussion.</P>
<P>This event is hosted at <A HREF="https://www.furtherfield.org/visit/" TARGET="_blank" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Furtherfield Commons in Finsbury Park</A>* and has been supported by the Borderlines Research Group in Creative Economies and Postcolonial Intersectionality at Queen Mary, University of London.</P>
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<P>"This original and innovative work will enable a new and perhaps paradigm-shattering interpretation of the coimplication of digital assemblages, temporality, and affect. Drawing on a rich ethnographic archive, Amit S. Rai is deeply sensitive to how gender, class, and caste are implicated in emergent techno-perceptual assemblages. His invaluable book is also an effective antidote to the Eurocentricity of digital media studies." — Purnima Mankekar, author of <I>Unsettling India: Affect, Temporality, Transnationality</I></P>
<P>"<I>Jugaad Time</I> is an important intervention into cartographies of postdigital media cultures. By drawing on the specificity of South Asian cultures, it enriches our understanding of the heterogeneity of these processes. The postcolonial study of media technologies is a vibrant and crucial field of inquiry; Amit S. Rai's outstanding work is an essential contribution to global approaches to new media scholarship." — Tiziana Terranova, author of <I>Network Culture: Politics for the Information Age</I></P>
<H3>Furtherfield 2019 Programme</H3>
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<P>The event form parts of Furtherfield's 2019 programme Time Portals. </P>
<P>Octavia E Butler had a vision of time as circular, giving meaning to acts of courage and persistence. In the face of social and environmental injustice, setbacks are guaranteed, no gains are made or held without struggle, but societal woes will pass and our time will come and again. In this sense, history offers solace, inspiration, and perhaps even a prediction of what to prepare for.</P>
<P>The Time Portals exhibition, held at Furtherfield Gallery (and across our online spaces), celebrates the 150th anniversary of the creation of Finsbury Park. As one of London’s first ‘People’s Parks’, designed to give everyone and anyone a space for free movement and thought, we regard it as the perfect location from which to create a mass investigation of radical pasts and futures, circling back to the start as we move forwards.</P>
<P>Each artwork in the exhibition therefore invites audience participation - either in it’s creation or in the development of a parallel ‘people’s’ work - turning every idea into a portal to countless more thoughts and visions of the past and future of urban green spaces and beyond.</P>
<P><A HREF="https://www.furtherfield.org/" TARGET="_blank" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer"><SPAN>For more information see our website</SPAN></A></P>
<P><SPAN>*Please not this is a separate building to our Gallery and is at the Finsbury Park station entrace to the Park. </SPAN></P>

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