GHOSTBUSTERS (working title)

GHOSTBUSTERS is a performance that explores our spectral relationship to memory, time and reality. For this, Steven Michel drew inspiration from the notion of hauntology, imagined by philosopher Jacques Derrida and later developed by music critic Mark Fisher. Hauntology describes the accumulation of ghostly traces of the past as we move into the future.  

Our present moment is constantly amused, disturbed, mocked and terrorized by memories and feelings from both the past and the future. We project the present into the past and hallucinate the future while believing we are looking at the present. We are never where we appear to be. 

Our own experiences of memory, time and reality are also immersed by belief systems set up to normalise our bodies and psyches. How can we preserve our interiority as a force for transformation? GHOSTBUSTERS calls for a transformation in the face of a condition up against the wall, on the edge of the abyss. Reversibility as a political statement, coming from the need to be able to imagine and dream a possible future. 

Together with five performers, Steven Michel makes a choreographic and musical translation of this idea of survival and erasure, embodiment and disappearance, delay and anticipation.