Elif Cadoux is a writer, performer, and facilitator based in Marseille. Their creative research uses theatrical, cinematic, literary, and participatory methods to explore alternative approaches to futurity. The resulting texts and experiences attempt to shirk the speculative impulse by practicing the subjunctive, a future tense that embraces desire, contingency, and mysticism. Drawn to collaborative processes, Elif been a collective member of FORCE: Upsetting Rape Culture, Both/And, and Call Your Mom, their performance collective of ten years. Elif’s recent theatrical works, Say You’re Sorry (with CYM) and Our Blood is Red to Let Us Know, explore how colonial affective regimes and speculative fiction intersect and affect one another. Their current projects, répétition, rehearsal, an ensemble performance, and That You May Have a Good Future, an exploratory dramaturgy and theory text, aim to denature rhythms of capitalist inevitability.
