El Futuro como trabajo escénico is a lecture performance about time on stage from a non-linear perspective. The lecture is given by Sofía Asencio and Júlia Barbany and is activated by a device that they’ve named “The Thinking Machine”. The machine´s function is to separate the elements that intervene and interact instantaneously on the emittance/reception of ideas in a theatre so that we can see, as though an event horizon, the exact moment that questions arise, and how the certainties that Júlia and Sofía manage to find in the lecture materialise.
Sofía Asencio is an artist and researcher in performative arts. She is co-director of Societat Doctor Alonso, where she has created several staged works which have generated a creation and investigation practice from 2002 to the present day. From 2004 to 2011 she was co-director of the context art festival MAPA in Pontós (Alt Empordà) and she was a member of the curatorial team for the 2011 and 2012 editions of Festival Sâlmon. She is currently part of El Consulado, a warehouse in the outskirts of Valencia, in the Fonteta de Sant Lluís neighbourhood, hosting activities related to the broader Live Arts and sharing use and management with Valencian artists. For this project she is working in collaboration with Júlia Barbany, performer and creator, whose work lies along the lines of irony, post-humour and the limits of performativeness she calls ‘soft’. Júlia is part of the Las Huecas collective, with whom she co-directed Projecte 92, Aquellas que no deben morir (Critics Award winner for Best Contemporary Show), Algo de amor and L’amistat (Time Out Awards 2024 winner for Best Show) and their latest piece, Riure Caníbal.
