Is the apocalypse truly the end of the world? The conception of death, devastation and destruction in the South Asian intellectual tradition differs markedly from conceptions of the apocalypse – and the eschatology that accompanies it – within Greco-Roman-Christian structures of thought and belief. The Western intellectual tradition emphasises obedience, fidelity to norms and commandments, and focuses on punishment and retribution. The conception of linear time in the Greco-Roman-Christian traditions and cyclical time in the South Asian tradition may have something to do with these very different conceptions of apocalyptic predictions and eschatology, where the world ends because of disobedience in one case, and because of the absence of an enlightened buddhi in the other. In this first seasonal gathering of 2026, we set foot, rather tentatively, on an untrodden path to explore these ideas.

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The Season of the Aliens with Chiara Famengo, November 2025

As a fisherman of the Venetian Lagoon confesses, “we cannot read the lagoon anymore.” His words speak not only of loss, but of an epistemic rupture – a way of knowing unmoored. The lagoon, like every living waterscape the grief council tends to, has always been mutable: a dynamic confluence of currents, sediments, tides, and human and more-than-human gestures rippling through the system. Yet these movements, once legible, now unfold too quickly, too violently, for the senses to translate. What does it mean to inhabit such uncertainty – to hold space for what exceeds prediction, to remain in conversation with those living at the edge of unravelling? How might we accompany endings – plural, overlapping, unresolved – with slowness and care that does not seek closure? What anchors remain in an ever-shifting landscape?

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After one and a half years of internal brewing and mutual nourishment, Foreshadowing opens its door to public conversations. Initiated by Youngsook Choi, the launch is co-programmed with Chiara Famengo, Jess Wan and Erin Li in support from Necessity, Delfina Foundation and the UAL Research Centre for Transnational Art, Identity and Nation. A full-day convivial gathering offers rituals, conversations, multi-species listening, collective witnessing with/as rivers, transnational solidarity, eco-grief procession and picnic reflection.

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