January 13-16, 2027 at the The Collapsable Hole

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“This is revolutionary theatre of the absurd with more ideas than can easily be received. In that sense, it’s less like a symphony than a Cecil Taylor piano solo.”
– Kurt Gottschalk, The Wire

“Actua 1 is a turbulent poetic live art cinema performance, jumpcutting across time and place…at its center, questions about documentary and memory and performance and revolution and media, haunt and inspire, perhaps wondering ‘what is to be done?'”
– Joshua Dumas, Staff Picks

ACTUA 1 will run at The Collapsable Hole (155 Bank Street in the Westbeth building) from January 13-16, 2027. 

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.