Epilogue

Epilogue retraces Postcards from the Future’s journey across the nine different city districts in which the project has taken place, each time involving its inhabitants and users in the realisation of a dedicated postcard/performance.

Postcards from the Future has taken place during an entire year, in collaboration with very diverse populations of the city, in places and at moments remote from another. This book takes up the challenge of gathering this multiplicity within a single bundled work, in order to give to all those who have taken part an overview of what the project has accomplished, partcipants in as much as audience members.

The book does not only document how these nine performances appeared in the visual realm of the city. Epilogue develops for each one of them the very thematic which has conditionned the most its realisation. The book portraits nine different interactions with the city, with its different neighborhoods, populations, infrastructures, administration, et al.

Just like any postcards, the Postcards from the Future are linked to the specific place they depict. What makes them special is that each one is associated with a precise point in time located in the future. Rather than being souvenirs, these postcards act primarily as invitations. By accepting the invitation and going to the address on the date and time indicated on a Postcard from the Future, one will be able to verify the prophecy made, thereby not only questioning the determinism, but also the pertinence of the images printed on the paper.