We live in two places now:
our bodies, rooms, cities and towns; and the body, room, city, town of the internet.
While the culture fixates on what we might lose to AI, we are busy losing it already— losing the parts of ourselves that are incompatible with constant digital connection.
This project goes looking for those disappearing places and asks what, if anything, might be saved.
Co-conceived with Lauren Zeftel, I’M NOT HERE RIGHT NOW is a practice-based project. Participants of community “working groups” process the disembodiment of digital life through writing, conversation and physical theater.
APPLY TO JOIN AUSTIN WORKING GROUP
November/December 2026
at Crashbox (5305 Bolm Rd)
There is no cost to participate. Performance experience is welcome but in no way required. The group will culminate with a sharing of findings for an invited audience on Saturday, December 12.
Questions? contact addie.j.ulrey@gmail.com
What is a working group?
Over 6-10 sessions, we commit to creating a “here” together. We attempt to physicalize “there” – the digital world – a place that we go and come back from or, increasingly, inhabit ambiently all the time. We map the changes this increasingly split-screen existence is bringing. The wager is: if we approach questions about technology and loss from a body perspective, things will become visible to us that we can’t access through thought-work alone.
Material from each working group gets collected and will eventually contribute to a performance piece, a modular archive of ideas and stories that can be performed in many arrangements.
PREVIOUS PARTICIPANTS
DETROIT - Summer 2026
Conner Darling • Anya Dengerink-Van Til • Gigi • Sara Group • Mina Kambakhsh • Rafi Kopacz • Maggie LaFramboise • Ollie Leatherman • Zelda Manela • Sofia Rowland • Esty Rubyan • Shannon Stewart • Veronica Thomas • Zariah Wahid
“You keep talking about dystopias, but what you are doing here feels utopian”
(audience member, Detroit)
All photos by Rory Hejtmanek.