Every minute of every day, we constantly obey orders, invisible orders. We take on different roles, and each role has different, and very restricted, options. We are different people when with our friends than we are with our mother, with our partners or with our boss, at a club or at a museum. We are all multiple people gathered into one, and without noticing we’re shifting and moving from wearing one mask to the other. In the center of Terminal of Bacco stands the obscure authority of our device, of an algorithm, of blind chance. But this authority can also liberate. By accepting it, the participants agree to experiment with each other, to be each other’s audience and to act upon each other. It allows for unusual things to happen: it’s a framework for the unexpected. The motivation behind our event is very simple. Curiosity. Appreciation for the possibilities and complexities of life. Having the sensual as an integral part of our existence, to open options for all different kinds of communications. After reading The Lottery in Babylon, a short story by Borges, we thought to ourselves: we wonder how we would have been different if we lived under these circumstances, if this was our world. We wanted to experience something similar, to have a space to experiment with our own relationships and our own image. Such a space did not exist. So we created it. The Terminal can be an intense experience at times. It can challenge your borders or your patterns, it can question your judgement of others. It can also be boring at times. At the end of the day, the orders are only the background. The heart of the Terminal is the other participants, your unique and temporal interactions and influence over each other, your mutual interpretations of your orders, your obedience and disobedience. Eventually, what we want is for the Terminal to make you look at the situations around you differently. To create unexpected and beautiful, challenging and intense moments. These moments can connect you to others in unexpected and hopefully deep ways. We want the Terminal to be a space of awareness, creativity and intimacy.