“I nearly forgot what Mum said to me.”
“Most of the time I don’t follow what she said.”
“Maybe she’s right, but I have to make my own mistakes.”

Every time you recall a memory, it gets further from the truth: mistrust and self-doubt distort the traces left from every past encounter, colouring our approach to every new person we meet.

How does the relationship between host and guest unfold? How much are we willing to give to or take from the people we encounter? How do we perceive each other, and how do these perceptions evolve over time?

These questions lead to creating a performance based on actions related to the context of meetings. Somewhere between theatre and dance, a repertoire of movements is collected from interpersonal experiences, and stitched together into a choreography involving all three group members. This forms the core of the project, a new meeting happening twice each evening of the exhibition.

Taking place in the cafe where so many new people were met during the last few months, a setting is created to enhance the performative elements of the piece. In conversation with the present, a further layer of memory of the past is added in the form of an installation. A security camera serves to record and examine each encounter, and, each evening, a monitor continuously plays back a highlight reel of the previous night. Additionally, after each representation, the footage is interpreted by an algorithm, extracting the movement of the performers and abstracting it into a drawing, which is mechanically drawn in parallel to the next edition of the performance. In this way, new meetings and memories of past encounters intermingle and influence each other over and over.