March 12-22 at the The Collapsable Hole

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ACTUA 1 will run at The Collapsable Hole (155 Bank Street in the Westbeth Housing Complex) from March 12th-22nd 2026. 

ACTUA 1 is a live-film performance piece by Brooklyn-based company Object Collection that constructs an event that both happened and did not. An exercise in futility and concentration, the piece is named after Actua One, a lost film from the May ‘68 uprisings in Paris. 

Performers pace restlessly behind a movie screen erected onstage of the Collapsable Hole as well as in all the nooks and crannies of the theater and surrounding spaces.

Spouting slogans for a missing revolution, actors propel themselves out of stagnation and boredom through complex object procedures and mental tasks. Speeches, music, activities, text, and images are projected on to the onstage movie screen via video cameras and microphones, where the audience can watch from a comfortable distance.

The action is both intimately proximal and telepresent. ACTUA 1: an absent performance for five performers—the soldiers from Godard’s “Les Carabiniers” performing Allan Kaprow on public access.

Previously presented by Object Collection as a couple of one-off, no-fi gallery performances in 2011 (Presents Gallery) and 2013 (Invisible Dog Art Center), the 2026 production is largely rewritten and is the theatrical premiere.