It Will Be What we Make It is a creation of a temporary platform in Lisbon enabling artists, theoreticians and programmers to meet and to experiment and discuss, and further develop ways of working. It aims to shift artistic work from product-orientation to a production of a space of heterogeneous meanings, through which perceptions, techniques, by-products and side-effects of processes of research can be exchanged and give rise to new conceptual imaginations that are not goverened by market pressures of profit and security. Read the It Will Be What We Make It /será o que fizermos press release for an overview of the objectives addressed by the stage 3 event.

What does it mean to build a temporary platform about the knowledge on work in the performing arts? How does a platform enable a practice to pick up speed and take off? How is a spatial practice different from communities or collectivities, from networking or constituting one’s own territory? A space can be a physical site, when its inhabitation is a project or a working group, it can be a virtual space that acts as a platform, it can be an empty template without content, it can even be a magazine or a book. A space enables continuation and differentiation, a whateverness of possibilities, it asks for no conviction or definition to subscribe and represent in public. Producing a space means not giving up on desire, it means investing in producing possibilities for oneself and for others, not to serve a promise of freedom, but as an active experimentation to how the knowledge one builds is affecting one and increasing her/his power to act.