the day after yesterday

As an approach to creating and surviving in the cultural sector, Tery and Madison adopted hope to move towards a utopian horizon. They have been engaging in artistic research speculating utopia on two different levels. The first is how to claim art as a space for practicing a better future and how to create in a utopian way. That is, how to create a process for us and others to exist in that is in itself a small utopia. How do we work together? How do we make the studio/ garden/ cafe table/ living room/ park bench/ wherever we are working into a utopia?

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The second level we are working on is utopian speculation itself. By following a dramaturgy of new-hope, we bring people together in a process of opening up to the potentialities of what the future might be. Inspired by queer futurity and Black feminist futurity, we look to over-looked pasts, in the present, to try to create new futures. We practice pre-figurative living, by bringing utopian details into the present physically, metaphorically, and concretely. We have been creating a utopian machine, where daydreams of utopias are put in. Out of this machine comes a new understanding of both the daydreams and the present we are living in. These two insights create a lens to see a future that is not a projection of the present. 

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New-hope dramaturgy encourages us to engage in a process, not just with a process, so the day after yesterday brings the audience into a utopian space in order to engage with the utopian machine, to have conversations, to brainstorm, to use their imagination, and to day dream together.