For the final event of the New Worlds series, Joey Holder and collective Omsk Social Club present a screening and discursive workshop centred around the phenomena of memetic culture both on and offline. Through the lens of a fiction-theory narrative entitled Memeplex™, recently co-created by the artists at Seventeen, Omsk Social Club and Joey Holder invite you to collaboratively build the story’s next chapter through the creation of counter narratives and conspiracy crafting.
Memeplex is two stories in one: the first explores the implementation of ideas, belief, and conviction that occurs through memetic artefacts. The other part of the story investigates the proven idea that the human body carries animal genes. Memeplex questions the human-centric history of the human as necessarily other to animal, ultimately providing context for a new type of animism stemming from ‘Otherkin’ subculture. Taken together, the screening and workshop invite the audience to become active participants in the construction of a multispecies memetic narrative.
