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

What now? is a performance-conference and installation that brings together artists, activists, and thinkers from different parts of the world within a shared space. By recreating the logic ofthe agora, and by staging local histories through diverse narrative forms, it invites the audience to engage in dialogue and to participate actively in the construction ofmemory, fostering a collectiveway of thinking fromthe presenttoward the future.

At the same time,the project seeks to build an audiovisual archive that brings together militant voices from different parts of the world. Taking as its central axis thememory of the most recent dictatorships in the Americas and the articulation of Operation Condor, the work enters into dialogue with the histories of people who were disappeared in different contexts of state-sponsored institutional violence. In doing so, it foregrounds the urgency of reflection and of creative proposals capable of confronting the same violent practices that persistin the present.

In each place where the project is presented, as a coda to the process, a written document will be produced and, through a performative action, presented to the parliaments of each location.

To care formemory by articulating an affective dimension that builds futures through artistic practice.

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