2026 LAB International Festival
EVIDENCE
December 4–6, 2026
What counts as evidence when reality itself is in question? This December, join us for a three-day festival of new performances exploring what we can hold onto in our fast-changing and vertiginous world.
Curated by Tania El Khoury and Gideon Lester, the festival features commissioned works by El Khoury, Annie Dorsen, Tanya Lukin Linklater, and SofÃa Gallisá Muriente and Natalia Lassalle-Morillo, including world and U.S. premieres.
Through performance and contemporary practice, these artists examine testimony, archives, images, and the narratives we build.
Presented by the Fisher Center at Bard in association with Bard College’s Center for Human Rights and the Arts, EVIDENCE invites audiences to look again, bear witness, and interpret evidence together.
What's On
Schedule
Friday, December 4
12 pm • Studio A
Tactics of Transmission
SofÃa Gallisá Muriente & Natalia Lassalle-Morillo
2 pm • Studio C
Tendon Thread
Tanya Lukin Linklater
5 pm • Studio A
After This
Annie Dorsen
7 pm • Studio D
Choreography of State
Tania El Khoury
Saturday, December 5
12 pm • Studio A
After This
Annie Dorsen
2 pm • Studio C
Tendon Thread
Tanya Lukin Linklater
5 pm • Studio A
Tactics of Transmission
SofÃa Gallisá Muriente & Natalia Lassalle-Morillo
7 pm • Studio D
Choreography of State
Tania El Khoury
Sunday, December 6
12 pm • Studio A
Tactics of Transmission
SofÃa Gallisá Muriente & Natalia Lassalle-Morillo
2 pm • Studio C
Tendon Thread
Tanya Lukin Linklater
5 pm • Studio A
After This
Annie Dorsen
7 pm • Studio D
Choreography of State
Tania El Khoury
Experience the Full Festival
Four groundbreaking artists. Four new performances. One weekend exploring what we believe, remember, document, and know.
Experience all four EVIDENCE Festival performances for $125—a $35 savings over purchasing tickets individually.
Curators’ Note
What constitutes evidence in a world where reality is increasingly augmented, altered, or undermined? The latest edition of the Fisher Center LAB International Festival is an invitation to explore the nature of evidence in an age marked by a technological race to dominate attention, data, information, and communication.
We have commissioned new performances that investigate evidence from artists whose work produces research, documents knowledge, and has the potential to transform public debate. Together they grapple with the notion of evidence in art, especially in the ephemeral and often fictional media of theater and performance.Â
The festival is unfolding simultaneously in several regions of the world. Four newly commissioned performances—by Annie Dorsen, Tania El Khoury, Tanya Lukin Linklater, and SofÃa Gallisá Muriente & Natalia Lassalle-Morillo—will premiere at the Fisher Center at Bard’s new Performing Arts Lab, designed by Maya Lin, over three days in December. Meanwhile, the international program (supported by the Center for Human Rights & the Arts at Bard) includes collaborations with artists and curators in Tunis, Mexico City, and Rio de Janeiro. Each of these sites developed a festival or long-term project that considers the nature of evidence within their political reality and local communities. The four global programs of the festival are connected through the sharing of tools, knowledge, documentation, public talks, and publications. Some of these commissioned works will build cases to be presented in tribunals; some will leave traces and visual markers that are open for ongoing interpretation and discussion. The festival will leave imprints for evidence to be built by others, or be embodied by future witnesses.Â
—Tania El Khoury and Gideon Lester
Credits
Co-Curators Tania El Khoury and Gideon Lester
Artists
Annie Dorsen
Tania El Khoury
Natalia Lassalle-Morillo + SofÃa Gallisá Muriente
Tanya Lukin Linklater
Festival Operations Manager Jess Webber
Festival Producer Carter Edwards
Festival Photographer Maria Baranova
ANNANDALe-ON-HUDSON • TUNIS • MEXICO CITY • RIO DE JANEIRO
Network Projects
The Festival’s international program, supported by the Center for Human Rights & the Arts, meanwhile includes collaborations with the curators of re/presentare from Mexico City, Temporary Art Platform in Rio de Janeiro, and l’art rue, presenters of the Dream City festival in Tunis. These global programs have developed their own festival or long-term project that considers the nature of evidence within their respective political realities and local communities. They are connected through the sharing of tools, knowledge, documentation, public talks, and publications.
SUPPORT
The Fisher Center is generously supported by Jeanne Donovan Fisher, Rebecca Gold Milikowsky, Daniel Shapiro, Stephen E. Simcock, the Martin and Toni Sosnoff Foundation, Felicitas S. Thorne, the Advisory Board of the Fisher Center, Fisher Center members and general fund donors, The Shubert Foundation, and the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature. Fisher Center LAB is funded in part by the Lucille Lortel Foundation and the Fisher Center’s Artistic Innovation Fund, with lead support from Rebecca Gold Milikowsky and additional funding from The William and Lia G. Poorvu Family Foundation.