About The Event
Abhi.Neta, Aayenge is based on Ionesco’s play The Leader - written in 1953, it is an absurdist look at the role played by the media and hype in the creation of political propaganda. Abhi.Neta, Aayenge inverts the practices of storytelling: instead of hiding the structures of fiction-making, through its exploration of the themes of misinformation, the attention economy and fake news, it mimics the very real phenomenon that we currently see in the making of news - a nexus of social media hashtags generated by both fake and genuine sources that creates news in and of itself - a simulacrum of the actual news event, which no longer enters the news cycle without being mediated by the filters of social media.
