Innovation is not the product of new technology. It is the result of changing the conditions under which artists think, collaborate, and make. This workshop opens Mitu’s collaborative process behind UTOPIAN HOTLINE, inviting participants into the methodologies that have shaped the company’s work across nearly three decades.

Led by Founding Artistic Director, Rubén Polendo, the workshop will investigate art making as a dynamic system rather than a collection of roles, engaging technology not as a tool to be mastered but as an active collaborator capable of transforming process, authorship, and artistic possibility. Through conversation and collective inquiry, participants will unpack the strategies Mitu uses to disrupt inherited models of theater making in order to discover new forms of performance, participation, and meaning.

At its core, this workshop proposes disruption as a creative discipline. By embracing uncertainty, crossing disciplinary boundaries, and building unexpected collaborations, artists can create work that does more than tell stories—they can create conditions for rigorous discourse, deeper community engagement, and entirely new ways of gathering around complex ideas.