FABULATORY - a fabulous etymology of gestures as an archival futuring practiceA performative in.formation, an in.formulation of my artistic research.In the Fabulatory, analyses and narration meet in peculiar temporalities. Circling theethics of forgetting, fabulation is used as a way to memorize the future throughimagining the past, for speculative futuring and other mnemotic practices. Storytelling isthe vehicle to remember how to remember, how knowledge is shared, formulated,stored. It proposes a laboratory of cultural labor, a fact.orat.ory of meaning production.For re@lections and confabulations, a fabrication of fables and ineffables.The performance choreographs an extended text that quotes and references into thespace through dance and other media, holding my research on gestures with its past andfuture ghosts and companions. From inside-out outside-in, like F. G. Lorca’s octopuses,the event is a meeting of text and body archives, entangling ways of thinking,symbolizing and ‚present-ing'.The Fabulatory sets out to situate my artistic research on gesture as an archival futuringpractice that links pasts and futures to promote mutable narratives on the basis of mycultural and personal history and to create new and strange perspectives on his_tory andmine. Af@irming that, in the end, everything comes down to the story we tell ourselvesand others.