Previous work

Since 2021 we have been creating workshops, performances, installations, and experiments to foster hope.

As an approach to creating and surviving in the cultural sector, Tery and Madison adopted hope to move towards a utopian horizon. They have been engaging in artistic research speculating utopia on two different levels. The first is how to claim art as a space for practicing a better future and how to create in a utopian way. That is, how to create a process for us and others to exist in that is in itself a small utopia. How do we work together? How do we make the studio/ garden/ cafe table/ living room/ park bench/ wherever we are working into a utopia?

The second level we are working on is utopian speculation itself. By following a dramaturgy of new-hope, we bring people together in a process of opening up to the potentialities of what the future might be. Inspired by queer futurity and Black feminist futurity, we look to over-looked pasts, in the present, to try to create new futures. We practice pre-figurative living, by bringing utopian details into the present physically, metaphorically, and concretely. These two insights create a lens to see a future that is not just a projection of the present.

New-hope dramaturgy encourages us to engage in a process, not just with a process, so the day after yesterday brings the audience into a utopian space in order to engage with the utopian machine, to have conversations, to brainstorm, to use their imagination, and to day dream together.

Utopia Syndicate has now expanded to include more friends, artists, daydreamers.

Hope Altar @ MaMA

Performance @4bid Gallery

Playing in the Clouds @ Club Huis

Hope Altar @ Het Huis

Slumber Party @ Het Huis

Performance @ BAK

Summer Residency @ Het Huis

the day after yesterday workshops