How To Thrive In 2050: 8 Tentacular Workouts For A Tantalising Future! is a manifesto by an Octopussy for a more creative, decolonised, equitable and ‘neuro-fantastic’ future, which prioritises nature, non-human animals and humans with ‘atypical’ cognitive modes. Blending discourse with mythology, geomancy with geopolitics, autobiography with the celestial, this collage is a retort to our troubled moment of multiple crises. Spanning performance, animation, interviews (including with artist Bob and Roberta Smith), text and original music composition, the 14-minute video-essay is a whirlwind of eight exercises for the body and mind. Playful yet at times poignant, coy but blunt, poetic and pungent, it argues that, in such times of despair, art can remind us to imagine how things can be, and that each of us must play an active part. Drawing on the words of Audre Lorde, Brecht, Beckett and Abdelkader Benali and more, it calls on viewers to (re-)imagine, and act on, how things can become. Be prepared to be disorientated, surprised, and re-energised. Are you ready?

《讓我們一起邁向光明的 2050 年！讓你胃口大開的章魚貓指南》 是藝術家陳凱欣以「章魚貓」的形式提出的宣言，旨在重新構想一個更具創造力和包容性的未来。通過八個部分或「觸手」展開，短片分享了新時代如何構建一個「神經未來主義」的現實，頌揚人類的神經多樣性（包括「非典型」的認知、存在和交流模式），並與非人類和自然和諧共存。

Kai Syng Tan PhD PFHEA (@kaisyngtan) is an award-winning artist-academic-author-agitator based in the UK. Known for their ‘eclectic style & cheeky attitude’ (Sydney Morning Herald), Kai’s creative theorisation of ‘neuro-futurism’ re-imagines leadership as a decolonial, co-creative, neuro-queered practice centring anti-oppression and futurity. By day Kai is Associate Professor in Arts and Cultural Leadership, University of Southampton, UK.

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