It happened tomorrow is an artistic research contribution, in the form of video loops on CRT monitors, to the Warming Up festival at Tolhuistuin in November 2024. It was part of the Kunstroute, a program running from November 7 to November 10, where visitors were guided through a series of installations and artworks around climate change. 

De Gaetano curated a special collection of more than 400 videos from the open archives of Sound & Vision, including short films, documentaries, and news reports about different forms of (other than) human relationships with water in the Netherlands. In an ongoing series of workshops called “It Happened Tomorrow/ Reflections on Water,” still images from the collection have prompted students, artists, researchers, and policymakers currently based in the Netherlands to collectively speculate on future ways of living in a country with higher waters. Through individual and collective drawing and climate fiction exercises, people were invited to look at and expand on still frames from the collection as a way to imagine possible future landscapes, adaptation scenarios, and how to co-inhabit them with other species.
These video montages explore and respond to the imaginaries generated during the participatory workshops and the narratives encountered in the audiovisual collection. Conversations from the workshops informed the textual captions on the videos, which take the form of fictional letters from an unknown researcher travelling through the Netherlands in 2124. Following Ursula Le Guin Carrier's bag theory of fiction, the audio-visual assemblages propose non-linear accounts of possible futures, open-ended and without heroes. Generative AI takes the role of co-fabulator in queering the boundary between past and future, human and more than human, giving shape to tiny climate fictions that question how we look at nature and how we can reimagine ourselves as part of it.