Notes from the Underground (Performance in the Time of Wars)
Culturaldrifts presents an evening of 6 performances on empathy, desire, exile, and solidarity in a world shaped by screens, borders, and fractured connections.
Performances | Notes from the Underground
(7:00 pm-9:00 pm)
Tickets:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/1312199145969?aff=oddtdtcreator
Proxy Touch: A Conversation from the Warzone
A live interview between a performer and an emotional surrogate based in Ukraine.
This is not reportage. It is an act of mediated intimacy—sustained through screens, shaped by distance, and defined by the endurance of care under conditions of rupture.
Fantasy Market
A cam performer offers fantasies, ideologies, and emotional labor for sale in real time.
This is a transactional structure in which commodified desire reflects, distorts, and resells the viewer’s own projections. Performance becomes both mirror and marketplace.
Voices Collected for an Unfinished Symphony
A public sound composition built through spontaneous interactions.
The performer moves through space inviting strangers to speak, hum, confess, or remain silent—gathering fragments of language into a live score of collective presence and sonic residue.
What Are You Willing to Give Up?
A participatory performance structured around acts of self-labelling, exchange, and erasure.
Audience members must define themselves, then relinquish or re-negotiate those identities in dialogue with others—mapping the thresholds of belief, belonging, and non-negotiability.
The Scent of Forgotten Wars
A mobile scent-based performance reconstructing the olfactory memory of conflict.
Using materials drawn from historical accounts and chemical archives, the performer offers a visceral archaeology of war—rendering the past inhalable.
We Asked for Shelter, You Gave Us Language
Three performers speak simultaneously: one reads from transcripts of displaced persons; another voices the rhetoric of state denial; the third recites media narratives of spectacle and abstraction. The resulting dissonance captures the structural impossibility of asylum in a system built on noise, indifference, and repetition.
