Are You Ready?

New episode out!

Yes, episode 7 of Are You Ready? (24:36 min.) (27 May 2021)

I am a dead tree from the Norwegian woods on a journey into the world of humans. My name is “The Living Unliving Surveillance Poet”, and every full moon I report back to nature through a very special tele channel on the world wide web, due to all species’ needing to be prepared for what’s coming.
You might think, WOW that’s a bit odd – well, everything is surreal at the moment. You need to be open to things out of the ordinary in these extraordinary times. Metaphysics is full of mystical coincidences and the first step to see things clearly is to not dismiss anything, but indeed expand one’s senses of what reality might entail.
Oh Dear, this is exciting! What do you say, Are You Ready?

Are You Ready? is an online TV-series in 7 episodes by Frans Jacobi and Gitte Sætre. The first episode premiered during the exhibition Latent City 29.11.2020, and the coming episodes will be launched by full moon on 30.12.2020, 28.01.2021, 27.02.2021, 28.03.2021, 27.04.2021 and 26.05.2021 on Are You Ready?‘s YouTube channel. BEK is one of the The All Ready Community, and will publish all the episodes of Are You Ready? here when they are launched.

Produced by: Gitte Sætre and Frans Jacobi (concept, script, filming, editing)
Sound design: Craig Wells
Visual design and communikation: OK Kontor and Kim Andre Fladen

Are You Ready? is supported by The Norwegian Arts Council, The Danish Art Foundation, City of Bergen, University of Bergen/KMD, NBK Vederlagsfondet, The Audio and Visual Fund Norway, and BEK/Future DiverCities.

Episode archive

The Resurrection, episode 1 of Are You Ready? (30:32 min.) (30 November 2020)

Faculty of Humanities, episode 2 of Are You Ready? (27:19 min.) (30 December 2020)

Acclimating to System Breaking Beneath Us, episode 3 of Are You Ready? (27:00 min.) (27 January 2021)

Taking the Telescope Apart, episode 4 of Are You Ready? (22:57 min.) (27 Februar 2021)

The Bullet, episode 5 of Are You Ready? (15:21 min.) (28 March 2021)

Golden Repair, episode 6 of Are You Ready? (19:46 min.) (27 April 2021)

Performances (documentation)

Performance at the opening of *Latent City*; *Are You Ready?* with Craig Wells and Omar Johnsen. Photo: Thor Brødreskift.

Frans Jacobi and The Living Unliving Surveillance Poet in conversation with Maud Ceuterick during *Latent City – Invisible Fields #2*. Photo: Thor Brødreskift.

The Climate Futurist Manifesto

Climate Futurism is an optimistic proposal to save our planet
Climate Futurism is decolonizing the human mind
Climate Futurism is a goodbye to crisis and war
Climate Futurism is a bureaucracy of kindness
Climate Futurism is the end of all capitalisms
Climate Futurism is a just transition
Climate Futurism is seriously fun
Climate Futurism is confronting one’s own blind spots
Climate Futurism is breathing, speaking and living free of censorship
Climate Futurism is geo-political care

– Green Hijab Production, by Gitte Sætre and Frans Jacobi
www.climatefuturism.art