As If

CCA Goldsmiths, London UK
29.2.20

with Verity Birt, Frank R. Jagoe, Reba Maybury, Korallia Stergides
curated with Harriet Henderson, Dot Zihan Jia, Mariana Lemos, and Clémentine Proby

© Rosie Taylor

As If was a series of performances taking place on a leap day, that expanded on the Goldsmiths CCA exhibition Transparent Things. As if ‘this’ or ‘that’, was an exercise of fictioning that created propositions to confront the status quo. Fiction can be applied as a tool of world-making towards highlighting the often invisible, yet extant, structures that dictate our current reality. As If presented four consecutive performances that combined text, choreography, sound and visual cues. These performances constructed new imaginaries, with the intent to raise awareness, critique, and offer alternatives to ones’ present. Click here for the detailed program and texts written in response to the performances.