Art for the ancient future:
Treating art objects as cultural artifacts and tools of invocation.
If history is a fiction, then time is a fiction and
the future can be historicized in advance,
it can be invented by us.
Using objects and symbols as entry points,
the alchemical tools for inventing new culture from
the wreckage of a run down model for civilization.
If the symbols can't be new, meaning can be reenscribed and renewed.
An ancient future is antithetical to the fascism of futurism and the uncertainty of pre industrial life.
it is not a paradox but a hybrid.