Script for a Synthetic Play: On (Un)grounding community and the generative power of fiction Nieves despite its utopian ambitions

despite its utopian ambitions

who grew up in Ballytrustan (County Down) and currently lives between there and Paris

excavating our own personal underworld and often a deep confusion and ambivalence to these images

And still you’ve got to “roll with the punches” and keep going

Edition Patrick Frey (Zurich)

Script for a Synthetic Play: On (Un)grounding community and the generative power of fiction Nieves despite its utopian ambitionsGround, foundation, land, landscape, territory, earth, soil, dirt, dust. Script for a Synthetic Play stems from a staged conversation between a historian, an anthropologist, three artists, an earth eater and an architecture theorist: they enter unknown grounds, it is dark, and a disembodied alien voice encourages them to move across uneven terrain. A temporary community of strangers is formed. A sense of agency and belonging emerges, but also of