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After the Threshold

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Description

Neutral Until Proven Otherwise by Fantastic Planet explores the quiet discomfort of being watched. Across four acts, calm, ordered spaces begin to show their limits, as difference returns as something natural and unavoidable. Neutral Until Proven Otherwise emerges from a growing sense of unease about living under systems of constant observation and classification. “As a queer Latino in the United States, the pressure of being watched, sorted, and rendered legible feels increasingly personal,” says Fantastic Planet. The series responds to a political and cultural climate in which claims of neutrality are often used to justify exclusion, erasure, and control, particularly toward trans and queer people, people of color, and immigrants. The four acts imagine a system that promises fairness by removing differences. Across these four acts, bodies are standardized, measured, and regulated within familiar institutional environments. What begins as calm order gradually reveals itself as sustained enforcement, where identity is treated as disruption and sameness as safety. As the system strains, gestures, textures, and emotions begin to surface, exposing the limits of neutrality and the impossibility of true uniformity. Although Neutral Until Proven Otherwise gestures toward a near future, it is rooted firmly in the present. The logics depicted already shape how visibility, belonging, and legitimacy are negotiated today. With Neutral Until Proven Otherwise, Fantastic Planet frames the return of difference not as failure, but as inevitability, insisting that what systems attempt to erase is precisely what makes collective life possible. Fantastic Planet

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