Sited from August to November 2020 during the heightened attention of the U.S. presidential campaign, the circus will play in “fugitive” space and in plain sight. The work is sited in appropriated places, temporal spaces, and everyday sites of the mundane. In some sites, such as Black social spaces, Collaborators will work with organizers, elders/memory keepers, and community-identified leadership to compose, design, perform and install immersive guerilla theatre, direct actions, and/or environmental landscapes. The [political] circus will also play in locations of direct contradiction and contention.

In these sites Collaborators will work as an ensemble to compose, design, perform and install immersive guerilla theatre, direct actions, and environmental landscapes. In each location, the circus will highlight the core tensions in the current political, economic, cultural, and ecological moment, while amplifying the Black surreal within the space/time/place continuum and returning to the central question Hortense Spillers raises in her work, The Idea of Black Culture. "If Black culture is critical culture," Spillers posits, "perhaps it is an unfinished project."