About the exhibition:

After the Before Times written and created by the Die-Cast Collective, is an immersive installation and performance art video project that explores the climate crisis.

In the soft quiet of a night somewhere in the future, a woman tells her loved one stories of the “before times.” A series of intimate bedtime stories paint the portrait of a world flooded and a society separated into small, isolated communities. Each story is vividly rendered using movement, text, and music filmed with 360° cameras on different coasts around the US.

Visitors can explore an outdoor installation, where details and debris of this future world create a physical environment. The installation includes video and sound featuring the stories of the Before Times. Visitors can also connect to a 360° digital world that expands the physical installation.

After the Before Times can be experienced both in-person and Digitally. The exhibit will be on view in the backyard of Da Vinci art Alliance in congruence with the Everyday Futures Fest.

About Die-Cast:

“Responsible for some of the east coast's most innovative, existentially-minded takes on what it means to make theatre in the 21st century”- Dosage Magazine

Die casting is a metal casting process that is characterized by Forcing Molten Metal under high pressure into a mold cavity, filling the mold entirely to create a new object. This image is our collective's guiding principle.

Die-Cast creates immersive, site-specific performance and installations. Our work is genre-busting, tech-savvy, and site-sensitive. We’ve taken over derelict ballrooms to explore Lovecraft’s dangerous nationalistic tendencies, placed our immersive adaptation of La Ronde in a historical mansion to challenge the hetero-normative all while exciting audiences and garnering accolades along the way. We have been nominated for the prestigious Harvey Award for Best Adaptation of a Comic Book, alongside Hollywood Blockbusters like Marvel Studio’s Avengers: Endgame. We have been featured at Art Week Miami 2020. Our public works installation Temporary Occupancy combined pre-recorded and live-streaming video projections and won the Juried Prize of $20,000. We blur the lines between mediums, like our video installation for the I-Park Foundation Site Sensitive Biennial. Before the pandemic, we were experimenting with online platforms, using chatbots, Titoks, and choose-your-own-adventure digital worlds. We are endlessly curious.

Die-Cast was founded by Brenna Geffers and Thom Weaver in 2017.