
Post-Truth (originally Post-həqiqət) is a site-specific multimedia project at the intersection of theater, performance, cinema and net-art. Originally coming from a documentary theater lab hosted by Salaam Cinema (Baku, Azerbaijan) in January-February 2023, the project is researching the influence of the environment and global events on the private life of a person in search of truth in the personal and public field.
Lab participants were looking for stories among Baku locals, which would reflect on the speaker’s identity through their life choices - and interfere with the common point of view or the choice of the speaker’s close ones. The main goal was to trace how people with different beliefs coexist with each other and agree on what is the "truth" and whether it exists at all. Stories were noted in the language of the speaker’s choice - Russian or Azerbaijani, and later on transformed into a dramatic text.
The final part of the lab was supposed to be a site-specific performance on the streets of Baku, directed upon this text, yet due to the content of the text and political regime in Azerbaijan, the project moved to the hybrid stage and began to reflect on places and site-specificity in the context of digital technologies and Internet. So, the material was divided into parts: some were directed and performed live, while the rest were transformed into mixed media - photos, reels, video essays, documentations, staged shots, audio recordings and dance improvisations. All of them were supposed to be collected on specially created Instagram account @salaam-post.
Production stopped at that point, as the timing of the lab was over, yet co-authors and curators of the lab are working on additional funding to work on digital material collected and release it.