Venue

: The Wyncote NW Forum
: 1119 8th Ave (Entrance off Seneca St.)
Seattle, 98101 United States + Google Map

Event Format: In-Person

EVENT NOTES
Doors for this event will open at 7:30 PM.

Presented by Skye Hughes. For questions about this event, please contact skyehug@gmail.com.

Banner graphic for "for posterity: proof of free will." The design features a messy pile of black chairs stacked on top of each other on the left. On the right. A black microphone is held up by a small stand, connected by several red cords with red music notes woven in between. The title is listed above the microphone with the subtitle "this is a performance, an oral history of the future."

Rentals

for posterity: proof of free will is a speculative oral history — a performance staged as a panel discussion reflecting on the end of humanity. Panelists look back at a civilization and environment in collapse, tracing the chain of events that began when humanity chose to stop reproducing and instead prepare for the last person’s death.

This is an exploration of peace in the face of existential crisis. As runaway climate change spiraled uncontrollably and humanity reached the brink of cataclysmic war, undeniable questions arose: Do we continue? What if we just… stopped?

The project asks what happens if we stop resisting mortality — not just individually, but on a global scale. Under this condition, the discussion is forced to consider alternative meanings for sex, existence, and community, opening space for new, subversive questions. If not survival, then what? If we were to turn off the engines of exploitation, how would the trauma we carry and the damaged planet transform? How could we practice inter-species care, care for the planet, recognition of harm, and attempt reparation on the largest possible scale?

In this world, what did humanity ultimately achieve through designing its own end?

Performers
Alyza DelPan-Monley
Fox Whitney
HATLO
Serena Chopra
Lío Sainz-Jones

Music by scott farkas and Paulina Michels

Skye Hughes makes multidisciplinary, body-based performance. Her artistic practice is driven by the desire to investigate information war, identity politics, oppression, and the climate crisis — how these phenomena are inscribed upon the body, and how that inscription shapes our inner life and connection to each other.

Skye builds her work from the inside out, using body-based improvisation as a way of following sensation to imagination, inviting movement, vocalization, and language to converge and converse through the Action Theater method. After studying with Ruth Zaporah from 2012 to 2024, Skye now teaches Action Theater, practicing improvisation as a way to stay responsive and in relationship with the process of performance.

She studied dance at Interlochen Arts Academy in Michigan, earned a BFA in dance from the University of Colorado, and is an alum of the Headlong Performance Institute in Philadelphia.

Since arriving in Seattle in 2021, Skye has produced two evening length performances, infinitely wretched: why would we murder what we create? (2022) and the body of pain in a post-antibiotic era (2024), and was featured at 12 Minutes Max at Base Experimental Arts + Space (2023). She co-founded Studio Salon with fellow artist Kristen Yeung, a community for artists of all mediums to share reflection and feedback during the making of their work.

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