Llorens will take the recent exhibition at the Schinkel Pavillon in Berlin "Human Is" as point of departure to explore the relationship between contemporary art and science fiction. "Human Is" gives form to a deep insecurity about the status of humans today, but it pivots more on humans' vulnerability to technological and organic difference rather than any productive sense of mutability. The science fiction underpinning the project, including Philip K. Dick and Ursula K. Le Guin, is based on literature produced in relation to the Cold War. Today's science fiction poses the problem of the human quite differently, with many in the field now imagining 'humanity' as a political category to which certain rights pertain rather than an essential form of consciousness. 

Natasha Marie Llorens is an independent curator and writer based in Stockholm, Sweden, where she teaches theory at the Royal Institute of Art and co-directs the Center for Art and the Political Imaginary. Recent curatorial projects include "En Attendant Omar Gatlato: Epilogue" at the CNAC Le Magasin in Grenoble, and, forthcoming, "Massinissa Selmani: 1000 Socialist Villages", at rhizome gallery in Algiers. She is currently at work on a book project about five experimental films from the 1960s and 1970s in Algeria, and a long-term research project with curator Myriam Amroun on decolonial curatorial methodology. 

Monday Lectures is a public platform combining invited guest lecturers and professors and researchers of the faculty at KMD. Monday Lectures aim to create a diverse programme of lectures exploring a wide range of disciplines and research topics. Lectures typically take place Mondays 10:00 at the Knut Knaus Auditorium and are free and open to all. 

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