{"id":1680,"date":"2015-06-06T10:12:27","date_gmt":"2015-06-06T09:12:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikebrookes.com\/blog\/?p=1680"},"modified":"2023-11-12T16:50:42","modified_gmt":"2023-11-12T15:50:42","slug":"no-matter-how-many-people-believe-in-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mikebrookes.com\/blog\/2015\/06\/no-matter-how-many-people-believe-in-it\/","title":{"rendered":"no matter how many people believe in it"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Here are a handful of photographs taken during our performance of <em>What if everything we know is wrong?<\/em> within a cleared out floor of Alh\u00f3ndiga in Bilbao last weekend.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This latest manifestation of the work was commissioned by Azkuna Zentroa as part of their final <em>3, 2, 1<\/em> programme \u2013 and was again retitled specifically for the occasion, in this case as <em>A fantasy is still a fantasy, no matter how many people believe in it<\/em>. The title taken from a statement by the science fiction writer Algis Budrys \u2013 and published in Playboy Magazine in 1963 \u2013 within an article entitled <em>1984 and beyond<\/em>, which transcribed a speculative conversation about the future between twelve notable science fiction writers of the period, including Isaac Asimov, Arthur C Clark, Ray Bradbury&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In Bilbao we introduced a verbatim recorded reading of that transcript into the room of the work, once we had built it. As part of a reflection on our understandings and imaginings of the future. And more specifically, as a record of how others have previously envisioned our present in the past&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mikebrookes.com\/media\/whatif\/bilbao01.jpg\" alt=\"What if everything we know is wrong? [performance still]\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mikebrookes.com\/media\/whatif\/bilbao02.jpg\" alt=\"What if everything we know is wrong? [performance still]\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mikebrookes.com\/media\/whatif\/bilbao03.jpg\" alt=\"What if everything we know is wrong? [performance still]\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mikebrookes.com\/media\/whatif\/bilbao04.jpg\" alt=\"What if everything we know is wrong? [performance still]\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mikebrookes.com\/media\/whatif\/bilbao05.jpg\" alt=\"What if everything we know is wrong? [performance still]\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mikebrookes.com\/media\/whatif\/bilbao06.jpg\" alt=\"What if everything we know is wrong? [performance still]\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Photos: Eva Zubero, for Espacio Azkuna Zentroa<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here are a handful of photographs taken during our performance of What if everything we know is wrong? within a cleared out floor of Alh\u00f3ndiga in Bilbao last weekend. This latest manifestation of the work was commissioned by Azkuna Zentroa as part of their final 3, 2, 1 programme \u2013 and was again retitled specifically [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,25,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-site","category-sound","category-whatifeverythingweknowiswrong"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikebrookes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1680","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikebrookes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikebrookes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikebrookes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikebrookes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1680"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"http:\/\/mikebrookes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1680\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2574,"href":"http:\/\/mikebrookes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1680\/revisions\/2574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikebrookes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikebrookes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikebrookes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}