SHOWCASE: The Origin of the Future – Aline Olmos Steler

Aline Olmos Steler searches for oracular insights in a place we rarely look. Where others find meaning in coffee grounds, stars or palms, The Origin of the Future invites a more intimate form of divination: in our underpanties. What can it reveal if we dare to look?

I went to the toilet.
And something significant was unfolding before my eyes during that encounter.
I looked closer, and I saw it:
her dress, her hair, the smoke coming out of her pipe.

Her position was strategic. Small. Like a painted ghost on a 5-by-7-centimeter cotton fabric.

I remembered that I had just put a lot of underwear into the washing machine.
I went back and checked.

Hygiene wash mode: ON.
Temperature: 60°C
Duration: 1 h 30 min.

Not a trace of them would survive.

*Vaginal-Discharge-mancy is a forgotten divinatory art that finds, in this performance, a space for manifestation.

Credits: Concept and direction: Aline Olmos Steler // Dramaturgy: Mahsa Koochak // Performers: Aline Olmos Steler & Mahsa Koochak // Set design: Renan Marcondes // Lighting design: Gabriele Souza // Sound design: Bartira // Costume design: Aline Olmos Steler // Text: Aline Olmos Steler in collaboration with: Curator text: Billy Mullaney, Mahsa Koochak, Joachim Robbrecht - Lady Discharge: Mahsa Koochak - Egg dialogue: Carolina Nóbrega and excerpts from The Egg and the Hen by Clarice Lispector // Production: KVS Theater // With support from MESTIZO ARTS PLATFORM/WIPCOOP and RIGHTABOUTNOW INC.

The Origin of the Future was first presented at WIPCOOP 2025 and can now be seen as Work In Progress at the Próximamente Festival on Nov. 19, 2026 at 2 p.m. and Nov. 20, 2026 at 6 p.m. at Beursschouwburg. The Origin of the Future will premiere at KVS in the fall of 2027…. More info to follow 🙂