Looking back from 2019 into the present date (2007) as our past, the artists working within the projec'It Will Be What We Make It' conducted a future study on the possible scenarios for Alkantara. Alkantara (the former Danças na cidade), moving into a space given by the city of Lisbon, is an event that will determine a change in the course of the development of this organization. Taking for its motto Immanuel Wallerstein’s - “Future is uncertain because it will be what we make it” - this investigation deploys some methods of futurology to devise alternative possible, probable or preferable/desirable futures for Alkantara.
The question what has to change in the present so as to enable the futures we desire - triggered three scenarios that have been presented to Alkantara and the audience in format of a performance. The first scenario, Alkantara as a venue, by Saša Asentić and Pedro Penim, was as a guided tour through the building of Alkantara in 2019, the second scenarion of Alkantara as a project based organisation, was a powerpoint report of different time frames from 2007 until 2019, while the last scenario depicted November 2019, through a press conference by Ana Džokić and Claudia Jardim, as the moment when the building given to Alkantara in 2007 was bought from the city of Lisbon by a number of local performing organisations who formed here their common platform.
After the performance, presentation of the research on Alkantara and Dancas na cidade: documentary video by Bojana Cvejić, Claudia Jardim and Federica Porello and a photographic research 'Lisbon Hijacked' on more then 70 spaces in Lisbon used by Alkantara from 1993-2007, by Ana Džokić, Marc Neelen and Pedro Penim.
The evening finished with a short sound and visual performance “It Will Be The Question Of…” by Nuno Rebelo. And video installation by Gustavo Ciriaco and Alkantara's family tree interactive animation by Carlos Pez.