i  :  i think an ‘if’ is like an invitation to refute or to be proved wrong …

like a way of offering a surrender to the possibility of an outcome being the opposite of

what you originally thought …

“if this happens , then i ______” …. “if i do this , then _____ might happen”

“if i do this , what happens if you do that ?”

Daebie , Jorge , Berirouche , Chaline , Bas T. Hin : five ‘ifs’ colliding with

alchemical intention to form a whole

five ‘ifs’ make an even bigger ‘if’

calcio , their host …

yet another ‘if’ …

in this ongoing ‘if’ the artists find themselves in , this drift  (if you will)

coalesces into a dialogue traversing

identity politics ,

deviations the self ,

variations of lies ,

variations of truths ,

unrecognisable histories and

possible solutions for an uncertain future where the ‘if’ formulates the code for

a possible

oasis …

only if , of course , it happens …

(meandering = utopia ? maybe , maybe not …)

ii  :  using an ‘if’ saves us from being wrong …

“i said ‘if’ !!”

a welcoming aperture ,it invites us to dream …

with an ‘if’ , we avoid certainty , and settle into the multiplicity …

we allow the butterflies’ wings to do the flapping

and decide for us … for the probability of the

the mutation to take hold

so the ‘if’ becomes a fate conjuror …

“if i do this , i’m not sure what will happen next …”

and so now … five ‘ifs’ decided to show work together … their practices elliptically

relate to one another … hence the ‘if’ … if these ‘ifs’ did a show centered around the ‘if’ , it would

probably look something like this …

iii  :a final anecdote : ‘if’ is often accompanied by ‘when’ as a way of implying

consequential possibility over certainty …

“when - i mean - if you do it , then ______” …

if or when it happens will be decided by fate , it depends on the ‘it’ …