Charlotte Bastam, After all, this is just another beginning, Master's Project Performance, 2026. Photo © Gerda Fischbach

After all, this is just another beginning

2026, Durational Performance

What do we do with beginnings once everything has become relational?
In contemporary discourse, where philosophical and artistic thought is often shaped by relational ontologies, the performance project After all, this is just another beginning asks what has actually become of beginnings. Are beginnings everywhere because new contingencies constantly arise? Or have they disappeared because everything co-emerges from pre-existing relations? And yet we mark beginnings socially: we celebrate them, we time them, perhaps we even fear them.

After all, this is just another beginning is a durational performance exploring this dilemma. In doing so, it uncovers the force, risks, possibilities, and responsibilities that arise when we don't discard beginnings but keep thinking-through them relationally.

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