The complex relationship between reality and fiction lies at the core of Rabih Mroué and Hito Steyerl’s artistic practice. In the words of the artists, Probable Title: Zero Probability is a lecture-performance about an event that is absolutely not possible. It starts with a simple question about “probability” that quickly turns into uneasy matters that put Steyerl and Mroué in confrontation with the space of zero probability where everything is possible but can’t be accounted for. Trying to enter into this space, Steyerl and Mroué develop a narrative about probability in art, mathematics, physics, and death. They try to calculate such a space where it is possible to be 100 percent alive and 100 percent dead. But can one explain how 200 percent probability fits into 100 percent? Steyerl finds herself entangled within quantum superposition, while Mroué goes to his father asking him for private lessons in mathematics. They both get lost within a cut in a cinematic edit.

In looking at the gap, a vanishing point, against the backdrop of violence and traumatic histories both Mroué and Steyerl refer to, the work calls into question the mechanisms behind systems in which individuals can disappear. Just as a real disintegration of the grip on reality ensues, bodies become entangled in the void that is created in between frames, prompting us to ask whether there is the possibility of an outside after all.  

_{Produced by HKW/Berlin.}