Meg Stuart

In a continuation of his installation The Dead Still Riot presented in 2025, the Thai director Wichaya Artamat calls upon, in a hybrid, fragmentary performance, the ghosts of insurrections from the past, and fertile breeding ground for those to come. In doing so, he imagines the transmission of a memory rooted in revolution across eras and places.

With The Sea is History, Betty Tchomanga furthers her work centred upon living memories of the African diaspora. After centuries of violence, how can it write its own history? In the wake of such widespread dispossession, how can it reclaim itself, its own body?

In the 19th century, a mysterious manuscript is found somewhere in the English countryside. A diary interwoven with poems, it is all that remains of Ester, who died from loving too much. In the shadow of this narrative, this new piece El corazón de Ester (The Heart of Ester) is the confession of a love and the exhaustion it results in.