What parallel realities are conceivable? Where are we when we are not there? How must we interact to feel connected? And where do we come together to care for one another and mourn for one another?

AFTERLIVES is a collaboration between the Thai collective Miss Theatre, led by the artist Miss Oat, the collective Henrike Iglesias, and numerous other collaborators. Together, they have created a multimedia, interactive performance taking place simultaneously in Bangkok and Birsfelden. Together with the two groups of spectators—separated yet connected—they embark on a search for queer AFTERLIVES.

The theory of the multiverse, based on the principles of quantum theory, serves as a metaphor, narrative device, and source of inspiration for speculating about their own afterlives, queer politics of dying, and alternative forms of coexistence. In Bangkok and Birsfelden, the audience will gather in the theater space and interact with the performance using their own smartphones. The smartphone becomes a portal connecting the spaces and the audience.