AAIS NOT-YET

As the first installation of the NOT YET festival, re:turn is an experimental performance at the intersection of spatial and interdisciplinary practice. The work stages hope as an active, material process, unfolding through contradiction and cyclical patterns of leaving and arriving, assembling and disassembling, collecting and dispersing. Hope is not anticipation but a mode of constructing, emerging through duration, suspension, and repetition, sustaining possibility without closure.  re:turn is a testing ground for choreographed and musical performances in active conversation with their spatial environment. Operating under an improvisational structure with negotiated dependencies, the work distributes agency across bodies, spatial objects, and the immaterial, letting interactions shape the experience. The performance explores the possibilities of return: of building a home away from home, and of ending only to begin again. Interacting systems create a nested loop where arrival already contains departure, and leaving prepares the ground for re-attachment.The NOT YET festival continues in Norway, a collaboration with Færderbiennalen - a dance and architecture festival. The second instalment of NOT YET will unfold as a series of workshops that culminate with the final performance, preceded by a performative dinner. It operates as a prequel to re:turn, in chronology and in process. It traces the necessary rupture that precedes formation, not unlike the construction of a bird’s nest: an act of productive destruction to assemble something that can hold, if only temporarily.   “True genesis is not at the beginning but at the end...” - Ernst BlochPROGRAMME DIRECTOR: Theo LorenzPROGRAMME RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT: Tanja SiemsCOURSE MASTERS: Argyris Angeli, Mona Camille, Nerma Cridge, Heiko Kalmbach, Kyriaki Nasioula, Pierre Nedd, Gemma Nixon, Patricia Okenwa, Thomas Parkes, Noa Segev, Atimanyu Vashishth, Renaud WiserSTUDENTS:  Antonio Saucedo Azpe, Yingying Cheng, Xiaoke Ding, Ojasvini Goel, Deniz Kangüleç, Bianca Lee, Xujun Lu, Eemaan Rashid, Ying Ying Cecily Tong, Ziyue Wang, Hao Wu, Wendi Zheng