Anticipation of the Night

The transmission of knowledge as well as the relationship between aesthetics and performativity as political action are both at the centre of Anticipation of the Night, a discursive space that comes to life each day during late afternoon, accompanying the festival as it flows through different locations. Conversations, meetings, book presentations, masterclasses and informal talks. All these Anticipation of the Night appointments expand the forms of reflection in dialogue with the artists present throughout the Short Theatre 2022 programme and involving researchers, theorists and critics, all intertwining issues spanning philosophy, physics, activism and literature. This afternoon space distils exchanges of knowledge rooted in experience and intervals of conviviality close to artistic practices, it promotes the connection between worlds and languages, all the while feeding tangents and aesthetic interferences capable of building an environment.