useless land

The night gives us some hours. Portals take time, they ask us to linger. “useless land” is a compilation of fictional and theoretical texts that speak about a world prior to the industrial revolution. These are texts that draw a cognitive map of other possible relations, other perspectives onto the human relationship with the environment, with animals, ghosts, plants, time ...

The Colombian dancer and choreographer Catalina Insignares (*1987) and the Brazilian director Carolina Mendonça (*1984) invite the public to spend the night with them, laying down and listening. They read texts out loud until sunrise. Enter a space where sleeping is a way of understanding the world. Voices pouring into ears, weaving stories. A wasteland. A need to trust the community of people we sleep with. A vigil state in which we can be together in dissension, with different languages and dreams, between alert and asleep.