In salt., Selina Thompson is a passenger onboard a commercial container ship taking the route upon which her ancestors were deported from Ghana to Jamaica and then on to Britain.
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On Minors, Movement, and the Gathering of Data
In an age of increasing surveillance, what about the children? As cities consider smart city data collection projects, and securitization employs more sophisticated surveillance and monitoring strategies, it is important to consider the effects and implications these technologies and datasets will have on minors, who legally cannot consent to have their information gathered.
Continue readingTerror From Inside the 3rd Dimension!
Wander virtual worlds! Meet live digital characters! Terror from Inside the 3rd Dimension! Move across web platforms, interacting live with a variety of characters in a hybrid augmented/virtual reality choose-your-own-adventure escape room set in a video game aesthetic.
Continue readingBroken/Sometimes Repaired
This micro-concert, inspired by Hanya Yanagihara’s A Little Life, is a sparkling tribute to queer resilience, love, and a celebration of the tremendous ripple effect great works of art can have on the little lives of those who encounter them.
Continue readingThe wide and curvy cartography of the goddess country
Written and performed by Ren Nile The wide and curvy cartography of the goddess country offers five short pieces of storytelling with visuals by Jabari Elliot created live in front of an audience.
Continue reading100% Analog: A long table conversation
12 Letters from Your Lover, Lost at Sea is a theatre-by-mail experience in which audience members receive 12 letters and postcards written by a mysterious hitchhiker named Z.
Continue readingImaginary Campfires
Imaginary Campfires are two short, recorded storytelling performances. They’re partly inspired by Latin American storytelling and Japanese Rakugo, where a single speaker brings all characters and events to life.
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Labour, technophobia, donkeys, and sharing the load of revolution: asses.masses is a video game performance that follows the epic journey of unemployed asses as they navigate the perils of a post-Industrial society in which they’ve been made redundant. Each night, brave spectators take turns stepping forward from the herd to become the players of a custom-made video game. Cheeky and political, asses.masses puts the control(ler) in its audience’s hands and asks them to explore the space between the work that defines us and the play that frees us.
Continue readingHybrid by Design
A participatory video game performance, a live virtual 3D augmented reality escape room, immersive short films, roundtable discussions about what a “play” really is… The works presented at Hybrid by Design seeks to answer the performance world’s most pressing question: what can live art look like in a post-pandemic world?
Continue readingwhat’s on(line) + milton and patrick sent a show to argentina
Here’s a rundown of what’s in this month’s issue: Milton Lim and Patrick Blenkarn reflect on the process of sending their video game to a festival in Argentina; Peggy Baker is winding down her company after 30+ years; Secret Life of a Mother is being published and you can pre-order your copy right now. In Learning, Unlearning, we shared be water, an art project from two anonymous artists collecting memories of their Hong Kong.
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