The sixth edition of “Present Futures” will see the festival move from its base at CCA in Glasgow to the city of Dundee within Dundee Rep, Dundee Contemporary Arts (DCA) and Dundee & Angus College. 

Over two days this satellite edition of the festival, will bring together local and international artists working at the intersection of performance, music and visual arts. Through a series of performances, talks and workshops the festival invites artists and audience to consider the complex entanglement and interdependencies of human and “other than” human as we enter collectively into precarious and unknown futures in the wake of ecological transition and crisis.

Present Futures Dundee is funded by Creative Scotland. Supported by Generator Projects, Dundee Rep Theatre, Scottish Dance Theatre, Dundee & Angus College, Dundee Contemporary Arts (DCA) and Goethe Institut.

More information: https://presentfutures.org/

Dundee Rep Theatre Programme 

Thursday 11th September 

To Be Kept By the Earth

Studio 3, performances at 5:30pm and 6:00pm

A live performance and installation by GRIPPD Art Company, created by Farrah Fawcett, A sculptural landscape, shaped in part by living moss and hand-bound organic forms, surrounds the choreography. 

Free but ticketed 

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Conversation with Laura Moorhouse: risographs, kinship and care

Café Bar, 6:00pm 

An informal sharing event with Present Futures Risograph Associate Laura Moorhouse - Laura will display her risograph works and invite conversations with the public, taking questions and exchanging thoughts about their creation and the ideas that inspire them; kinship, social permaculture and radical care.

Free drop-in session 

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Double Bill: The Violet Hour & Conversations with Eve 

Main Stage, 7:15pm

The Violet Hour by Colette Sadler 

Inspired by the effects of the natural world on the imaginative subconscious, The Violet Hour is a new dance work set within a dark and mutable landscape, materializing like a shifting apparition from the beginning or end of time.   

Conversations with Eve by Bishop May Down

A live conversation between human and computer, created collaboratively with AI chat-bots. Across digital and corporeal presence, they speak of love, origin, and existence in crisis; and in the end, they dance. 

Tickets from £13

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