ABOUT THE WORK:
If so, was it good? enlists strategic storytelling, assertive speculation, everyday clamor, and deception to grapple with the polarization of personal and political identity and ideology in present-day USA. In this Ozian dystopia, Engelman, Jennings, McDonough, and Papineau move through practices of Inauthentic Movement and improvisational interviews, toggling between and falling into roles of interrogators, newscasters, childhood friends, therapists, love interests, survivalists, conspiracists, tricksters, and more.

From the tales of a QANON-devout grandmother to memories of chronic high school academic dishonesty to an aimless news segment generated by Chat GPT, the strategies of the fake news machine and fraudsters everywhere are employed to craft a dark, dysfunctional performance scape. A climate of urgency and a need to survive through the noise, reign supreme.