How do we envision theatres and other art spaces today and tomorrow? How do we shape these places of encounter, these laboratories for living together?

These questions where at the onset of a research project by choreographer Meg Stuart/Damaged Goods, dramaturge Jeroen Peeters and scenographer Jozef Wouters, which resulted in several creations on location. Each time the company built a temporary environment prone to change, adaptation and migration. In real and imaginary spaces they unfolded precarious collective practices of meeting and making – with living bodies, with tape and wood, with curated sounds and urban noise.

Imagine a nomadic tribe would travel from the future to today’s time to share their lore – the stories, songs and dances that reflect their ways of living together, of practicing labour, care and ritual. Would we look at today’s world with different eyes? Would we be spurred on to sensitize ourselves and experiment with spaces and situations of encounter?