In this borderland performance/dialogue, Praba Pilar and Anuj Vaidya (a.k.a. Pilarvaidya) ask: where is the future? In this program, they share stories of the queer kinship that spills across their pluriversal lives, show excerpts from their collaborations with a range of intelligences — from the artificial to the microbial and the mycelial — and theorize utopia as an everyday practice of crawling from necrotic egocentrism toward biotic ecocentrism.

Vaidya and Pilar are founding members of Larval Rock Stars, a multi-modal conceptual project encompassing digital, textual, performance, sound, and video experimentation. They visit Berkeley in conjunction with the Townsend Center's Collaborative Research Seminar on “Rethinking Futures."