Within the framework of the BP.23 Performance Biennial, and with the entrance hall of the National Museum of Fine Arts serving as an auditorium, ANTIPLAN Ñews proposes a series of audiovisual pieces composed live from material extracted from news channels. The focus is placed especially on Argentine politics and the electoral process that culminated in the 2023 presidential runoff, as well as on the first months of the devastating —and still ongoing— extermination of Gaza. Speeches, editorials, interviews, small capricious moments of the so-called “current affairs” are cut out and used to feed a machine that returns these fragments woven into a distorted whole, reorganized in real time through the performer’s execution. With this raw material, improvised sequences and passages that are never repeated are constructed: multiple rebounds of meaning that confront the collective discomfort of a particular moment. The performance takes place on the night before the inauguration of the elected president Milei. Nobody in the room seems particularly happy. For this special occasion, the writer and screenwriter Julián Urman joins as an essential creative running mate. In his words: “Within ANTIPLAN Ñews, the material of reality —encoded as ‘news’— becomes the substance with which Ian Kornfeld composes and performs live audiovisual pieces through the operation of a synesthetic machine capable of extracting sequences that are simultaneously terrifyingly new and strangely familiar from that flow of information that, every day, permeates our gazes from infinite screens. In this performance, the most ‘real’, the most ‘current’, is submerged into an anti-narrative logic and emerges as a distorted being, revealing a facet of itself previously hidden behind a wall of calcified explanations. By shaking the tree of meaning, unknown fruits fall, merging into unusual fermentations; this collective hallucination called ANTIPLAN Ñews proposes a sensory and intellectual challenge: the reconfiguration of that magma we call ‘the real’ through the savage remix of its journalistic representation, an invitation to a trance that makes the mind dance at the very edges of language. News transformed into audiovisual performance through complex machines that eviscerate ‘the real’ in order to extract something fantastic. ANTIPLAN Ñews proposes looking again at what has been seen in order to encounter something completely new.” Creative Ñews collaboration: Julián Urman Production: Laura Santos & Ian Kornfeld General technical coordination: Malena Juanatey Sound technician: Elandro Brunacci