Horizon Scanners

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Investigating the rise of speculative aesthetics as a practice of futurecraft in a post-securitization crisis era, the artist examined various futures and “horizon scanning” programmes run by the Singapore government, devised to anticipate “black swans” or rare, hard-to-predict events of great consequence. To quote one futurist, the new tools of futurecraft are no longer “maps” but “metaphors”. Accordingly, this marks a shift in the tools of governance from “big” data to the“small” storytelling workshop. So what are the stories we allow ourselves to tell? And what are the stories that still remain to be told?