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        mso-bidi-font-weight:bold" lang="EN-US">Dear Friends and
        Colleagues,</span></p>
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style="margin:0cm;mso-add-space:auto;text-align:justify;vertical-align:baseline"><span
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        mso-bidi-font-weight:bold" lang="EN-US">On September 23rd and
        24th 2022, Marcus Neustetter
        opened and closed the <i>Global Periphery </i>symposium with
        the <i>Imaginary
          Futures</i> performance.</span></p>
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    <p
style="margin:0cm;mso-add-space:auto;text-align:justify;vertical-align:baseline"><span
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        mso-bidi-font-weight:bold" lang="EN-US">It is our great pleasure
        to bring you today a video recording
        of this performance with excerpts edited by Antoine Perroteau. </span></p>
    <p
style="margin:0cm;mso-add-space:auto;text-align:justify;vertical-align:baseline"><span
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        mso-bidi-font-family:"MS
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        mso-bidi-font-weight:bold" lang="EN-US">on Leonardo/Olats
        website: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.olats.org/imaginary-futures/">https://www.olats.org/imaginary-futures/</a></span></p>
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        mso-bidi-font-weight:bold" lang="EN-US">on YouTube :
        <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qw_BsmkMI44">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qw_BsmkMI44</a></span></p>
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        Vimeo : <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://vimeo.com/showcase/9080214">https://vimeo.com/showcase/9080214</a></span></p>
    <p
style="margin:0cm;mso-add-space:auto;text-align:justify;vertical-align:baseline"><span
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    <p
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        mso-bidi-font-weight:bold" lang="EN-US">Together with Marcus
        Neustetter the performers of <i>Imaginary
          Futures </i>were in Paris Fatou Cissé from Dakar, and the
        South African artists
      </span><span
        style="font-family:"Avenir",sans-serif;mso-ansi-language:
        EN-US" lang="EN-US">Aja Marneweck (Cape Town), Miné Kleynhans
        and Teddy Mhlambi (Bloemfontein),
        Ciara Struwig, Thulisile Binda and Xolisile Bongwana
        (Johannesburg).</span><span style="font-family:"Avenir
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        in this case select "see on YouTube")</span></p>
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        style="font-family:"Avenir
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          style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Avenir
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        style="font-size:11.0pt;
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        lang="EN-US"> is part of <i>More-Than-Planet</i>
        project, an international cooperation project between Stichting
        Waag Society
        (NL), lead partner, Zavod Projekt Atol (SI), Ars Electronica
        (AT), Digital Art
        International ART2M (FR), Northern Photographic Centre (FI) and
        Leonardo/Olats
        (FR).</span></p>
    <p style="margin:0cm;mso-add-space:auto;text-align:justify"><i><span
          style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Avenir
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        style="font-size:11.0pt;
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        lang="EN-US"> is organised by Leonardo/Olats;
        curators: Annick Bureaud and Marcus Neustetter.</span></p>
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        style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Avenir
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        with Chaire arts & sciences, Ecole polytechnique and Ensad
        (FR)</span></p>
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        style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Avenir
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        with Cité Internationale des Arts.</span></p>
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        style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Avenir
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        by ITACCUS, the Committee for the Cultural Utilisation of Space
        of the
        IAF-International Astronautical Federation. </span></p>
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        style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Avenir
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        by the European Union (</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;
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        lang="EN-US">Views and opinions
        expressed are those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily
        reflect those
        of the European Union. Neither the European Union nor the
        granting authority
        can be held responsible for them)</span></p>
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        received the support from the Daniel and Nina Carasso
        Foundation, the Canadian
        Cultural Center in Paris and the Institut Français India.</span></p>
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