The Future Was a Fantastic Place, Once.
In an uninhabitable world, with levels of violence beyond comprehension, for which we still lack language, a world that seems forgetful of its past where moving forward feels impossible, a world where sustainability and well-being are in crucial and constant conflict, we need new forms of excavation and inquiry.
We need new ways to make sense of things. We need new ways to listen.
When artists translate the uncertainties of the future into present choices and we encounter their tangible and imaginative worlds, we adopt a new, unfamiliar posture — often uncomfortable, sometimes intoxicating, always different.
With 20 artistic presences and 45 events, FAROUT Live Arts Festival 2024: The Convivial Laboratory invites the audience to inhabit these new postures, exploring new ways of listening and being in the present through performances that delve into the body, the city, the planet, and History.
The works intersect with the urgencies of our time, offering a collective and personal experience that is both political and emotional.
Can the temporary space and time of a performance allow us to envision alternatives?
Gaining awareness of a global scenario where one’s political and social efficacy seems ineffective can, paradoxically, become the only way to reconsider complex, interconnected, and highly relevant issues.
To question the future horizon of activism in contemporary times is to question one’s own individual impact on the global scale — what anthropologists refer to as “agency,” or the power to influence the system of which one is a part. Although finding definitive answers to these questions is challenging, the persistent belief remains that asking them represents the only possible first step.