re:turn – Open Rehearsal

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 which emerges through duration, suspension and repetition.

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.

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.

“True genesis is not at the beginning but at the end...” - Ernst Bloch

In 2025-26 academic year, inspired by the works of Bruno Latour, Ernst Bloch and Thomas More, AAIS

started by asking the question: How can spatial and performative design anticipate realities not yet born?

The work presented will then be developed for Færderbiennalen, a Dance and Architecture Festival, in

Norway in June 2026.

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The performance run time is 1 hour and will be followed by a Q&A with the artists.