(Deambulatorio(espera(profecía)))
Conference at Matadero presented by XenoVisual Studies
[ES]
El sábado 31 de mayo a las 17h, el cuerpo teórico se desborda en una conferencia híbrida, entre gameplays, relatos y profecías glitch.
La Hammada (Deambulatorio(espera(profecía)))
Anemoia propone explorar otras formas de exponer el cuerpo teórico. La propuesta parte de la encarnación de la experiencia del meme brainrot, planteando una ponencia llena de estímulos como la visualización de un gameplay en directo: Hammada, videojuego creado por @itshzky a partir de un relato del colectivo.
La ponencia pivotará en torno a la cuestión profética apoyándose en cuatro patas principales: la temporalidad, la espacialidad en la que sucede, las f(r)icciones generadas en la ansiedad por que cambien las cosas, y la cuestión del efecto.
Todo esto situado desde una narrativa concreta en la que recorreremos un espacio mental —el Deambulatorio—, planteado con un primer relato, posteriormente asentado con la charla, y finalizado en la conclusión con el público que quiera intervenir.
— Texto de XenoVisuals en post de instagram.
[EN]
On Saturday, May 31 at 5 PM, the theoretical body overflows in a hybrid conference, blending gameplays, stories, and glitch prophecies: La Hammada (Deambulatorio(espera(profecía))).
Anemoia proposes to explore alternative ways of presenting the theoretical body. The project stems from embodying the experience of meme brainrot, offering a lecture filled with stimuli, such as the live visualization of a gameplay: Hammada, a video game created by @itshzky based on a story by the collective.
The lecture will revolve around the prophetic question, supported by four main pillars: temporality, the spatiality in which it occurs, the f(r)ictions generated by the anxiety for things to change, and the question of effect.
All of this is framed within a specific narrative, guiding us through a mental space—the Deambulatorio—introduced with an initial story, later grounded through the lecture, and concluded with participation from the audience who wish to intervene.
— Text by XenoVisuals in instagram post.
Asociación Anemoia was invited by the collective XenoVisual Studies to give a lecture within the framework of XVS Center II at Medialab Matadero on Saturday, May 31, 2025.
The lecture focused on the prophetic question, structured around four main axes through which the audience was invited to engage: temporality, the spatiality in which it occurs, the f(r)ictions generated by the anxiety for things to change, and the question of effect.
This proposal, born in contemporaneity, is also embodied in the experience of brainrot overstimulation. For this reason, the lecture was designed to be full of live-generated stimuli, such as opening TikTok in one window and Instagram Reels in another, working in Paint to create slides on the spot, or even presenting a live gameplay: La Hammada, a project developed by Hzky, a member of Asociación Anemoia, based on a collective story.
Throughout the lecture, the soundscapes of Misael Niceto, aka Romero Dog, provided a continuous auditory backdrop.
The DEAMBULATORIO
In Deambulatorio, we propose a speculative reflection on the relationship between prophecy, time, waiting, and landscape through the Hammada project, a theoretical and symbolic territory where the human and the inhuman intertwine in the same vibration. We start from the idea of prophecy not as a literal prediction, but as a poetic language that emerges in contexts of crisis to announce the imminence of change.
From there, we developed the notion of the Complex Temporal Unit (CTU), a model that allows us to think of time as a fabric of simultaneous rhythms—geological, biological, digital, affective—that collide in the present. In this collision, waiting ceases to be passive and becomes an act, a vital practice: we stalk, we wander, we fictionalize. The Hammada, the rocky desert that gives the project its name, functions as a metaphor for this active waiting: a landscape that longs for its own transformation, vibrating in the imminence of an event that has yet to manifest.
Weave of participating temporalities
The Event
In the face of a digital environment saturated with messages, where truth is dispersed among humans, bots, and algorithms, we understand prophecy as a form of hyperstition—a fiction that produces the reality it anticipates. Thus, the actions of stalking, wandering, and fictionalizing intertwine with nostalgia, understood not as a refuge in the past but as a critical tool that reorganizes the present and allows us to sustain the tension of change. In Hammada, nostalgia becomes temporal curation, resistance against collapse, a way of waiting without petrifying. Time and space overlap, the desert becomes narrative, and waiting becomes method. We do not seek resolution, but rather to inhabit the threshold, that point where the layers of what was and what will be blur. From this vibrant frontier, we ask: how do we face the anxiety of change? How do we stalk what is to come? And what happens when Hammada ceases to be what it is?