"It will be what we make it wants to research modes of functioning between individual creativity and collective responsibility, reflect about the tension between artistic creation and the arts market and experiment with programming formats that devolve to the public a taste for the unexpected. It will be what we make it is at the same time a reckless leap into the immediate and a metaphor for a future space to build. "

For 21 days, ‘It Will Be What We Make It’ aims to explore and strengthen dynamics between individual creativity and collective responsibility, to reflect on the tension between artistic creation and the art market, and to experiment with programming formats that inspire the public with a taste for the unexpected.

Together with alkantara (Lisbon-based performing arts platform) and performance theorist Bojana Cvejic, ALMOSTREAL helped develop a collective research project 'It Will Be What We Make It'. An international mix of artists from diverse fields (from theatre-making, electronic music, choreography to architecture), came to work together in the new alkantara space: an old warehouse in Lisbon.

Before starting off with bank loans, architectural plans, construction works, equipment lists and programming calendars, this project wants to experiment the potential of the space — in the unmarked state it is now — and take some time to think about alkantara’s possible roles in the local and international arts scene and the cultural life of the city.

Taking as a motto Immanuel Wallerstein's quote “Future is uncertain because it will be what we make it”, the involved artists are hatching an instantaneous programme of public events that show the results of their ad-hoc collective process and involve different audiences. These events are realised in all kinds of conventional and unconventional formats from debates, concerts, seminars, performances to films. At the same time, this leads to a set of scenarios for what alkantara — as a platform, as well as a cultural space in the city of Lisbon — can become.