Pluriversal Interstitia_Interfluid Localities is a transdisciplinary, immersive performance that explores identity, memory, temporality, and cultural frequency through collected, imagined, and recorded sound, an expanded notion of language, memorized movements, and a large-scale animated wave. Inspired by the concept of ‘pluralistic realism’—the idea that the world is both one and many, unfinished and yet to become—this performance positions the Mediterranean Sea as a space of coexisting realities. It envisions the region as a site where histories and futures intersect and coalesce beyond colonial narratives. Applying a pluriversal framework, the Mediterranean is positioned away from colonial nostalgia and singular origin stories of the so-called global North or South, towards a field of resonance in which rigid colonial notions of identity are challenged through fluidity.

In the performance, the animated wave stands as a living body of possibility, reflecting the principle of quantum superposition: just as a wave comprises the superposition of many waves, identity exists in a state of multiplicity. Referencing Thomas Young’s (1773–1829) double-slit experiment—where quantum entities behave as both wave and particle until observed—the performance proposes that identity also exists in potentiality. Rather than being influenced by scientific observation (or the scientific gaze), however, in this performance it is the artist’s desire that collapses this potential, intentionally shaping, bending, reflecting, or unsettling her own identity. This act of self-determination seeks to transcend the moment and rather proposes an ongoing practice of bending towards decoloniality: fluid, reversible, and capable of continual (re)formation, reclaiming agency from western frameworks that have historically defined and categorized the self. Accordingly, the audience is not a passive presence, but becomes part of the resonant field and is invited into shared frequencies of becoming that may resonate beyond the immediacy of the performative moment.  

This performance is an ongoing work and features music from houaïdas’s forthcoming debut album MEDITERRANÏA (2026), echoing the sonic histories of diasporic futurisms.