The AA Interprofessional Studio (AAIS) will perform the interdisciplinary performance Borne: To Those Born Later at the Shoreditch Arts Club on Thursday 21 March. The performance will be followed by a Q&A artist talk with Jelena Sofronijevic. Extract written by Atimanyu Vashishth and Svasti Agrawal:

We, the current generation, have borne the burden of the sociocultural and political behaviour of a generation that precedes us. We have inherited these discussions. Our privileges do not belong to us. Their burden of responsibility, however, does.

We’re all fundamentally human. We all pick our noses, we all practise speeches or debates in our respective showers, we all eat, sleep and fart. We bring to you a series of performative events that reiterate that we are all real, vulgar, animate, raw and utterly beautiful. All of us today stand together nonchalantly gazing upon the world’s afflictions, within our own respective safe havens. But while we cannot explicitly change the present, but we can implicitly impact our own future.

In this performance, the Architectural Association Interprofessional Studio (AAIS) brings together an interdisciplinary ensemble of artists and invites you to witness us take matters into our own hands. It is time that we craft our own questions and use this inherited privilege as a site to house discussions, intervene and build an ethical future for ourselves and the generations that follow.

We, the AAIS cohort of 23-24, invite you to witness our questions, as we position art to discover what empathy is, and what it can be for us and for those born later. We urge you to recognise that yesterday’s understanding of compassion and privilege needs to be acknowledged and regarded, but not clung to.

The world can only be changed by those who are willing.

Tickets are £7 and are free for Shoreditch Arts Club Members and AA Members.
Visit the Shoreditch Arts Club website for more information and book tickets here.

Image: Borne Rehearsals. Photo by Tanja Siems.