A project by Fernando Rubio
Produced by PS21 (Chatham, NY, US)

We Are Here is a performance, lecture, and installation that brings together artists, activists, and thinkers from around the world. By recreating the logic of the agora and staging local histories through diverse narrative forms, the project invites the audience to engage in dialogue and active reflection, participating in the construction of a memory that fosters collective thinking from the present toward the future.

Furthermore, the project aims to build an audiovisual archive gathering activist voices from across the globe.

Using the recent dictatorships in the Americas and the coordination of Operation Condor as its mnemonic axis, the work seeks to créate a dialogue with the stories of victims of enforced disappearance in various contexts of state institutional violence. It addresses the urgent need for reflection and creative proposals to confront similar violent practices in the present day.

In each presentation space, as a coda to the project, a written document will be produced and presented to local parliaments through a performative action.

Nurturing memory, articulating an affectivity that builds futures through artistic practice.

The project unfolds in three complementary dimensions:

The live performance, which activates a collective and participatory event.

The creation of an archive and an audiovisual piece based on interviews and recordings with activists and militants-materials that engage with the present and remain as shared memory.

The energizing action of activism in each place where the work is presented, fostering new forms of encounter, debate, and organization born directly from the performative experience itself.

An original production by PS21 (United States)

Coproducers:

KVS (Belgium)
Bienal de Performance (Argentina)
University of Oklahoma

Distribution:

T4/ Producciones Teatrales Jonathan Zak & Maxime Seugé