Imaginative Expression
Exploring the importance of touch, the new show from leading digital performance innovators ZU-UK takes one audience member at a time through a journey from childhood to adulthood and old age through the medium of a bedtime routine. Within Touching Distance is a patient-led artwork, asking audiences to consider the ways that we interact at a sensory level with the world.
This was an adaptation of Romeo & Juliet that took place entirely within the basement bar at J.W. Sweetman (now J.R. Mahon's) on Burgh Quay. Some friends of mine from Bow Street were in the cast. Scenes from the play began spontaneously throughout the location, and the audience was free to move about and sit/stand wherever they liked. All of the action of the play was compressed and restricted to a single location, so the entire story played out in real-time, with actors emerging from the audience and reintegrating back into it when not required by the current scene.
FIRST DAY is a fully immersive first-person VR experience that transports the visitor to the situation of the first day of the unexpected war attack. It allows you to experience the internal transformation that Ukrainians went through on February 24, 2022.
Free UR Head is an accessible dance experience that uses VR to create instant group choreographies through the participation of its audience.
Taiwanese theatre and film director Chou Tung-Yen earned his stripes for his cross-border approach, his inventive use of new media, and the unexpected angles he takes on his subjects. This time he wants to take a step back from what happens inside the VR goggle, and wonders about the real physical repercussions outside of it. The result is Free UR Head, a tool for instant VR-conducted group choreographies.
It is developed from the extension and development of the dance video of the 2013 World Theater Design Award work "Empty Memory". In cooperation with dancer Zhou Shuyi, through the surround view camera, several dance images in an almost surreal space are shot, connecting a journey between sleeping and waking. When the surround view lens no longer has the ability of active capture, but a comprehensive shooting record, the relationship between body and space is instantly magnified. The circular arc and the boundless horizon attemp
Narrated by Neil Gaiman (Good Omens, Doctor Who), The Storyteller: The Seven Ravens is an extension of The Jim Henson Company’s popular franchise, that re-envisions folk stories, legends, and fables from around the world. In The Seven Ravens, a young girl sets out on an adventure to save her seven brothers from a curse that turned them into ravens. The AR book experience will allow people to interact with, explore, and re-explore the detailed and robust world of The Storyteller through the lens of The Seven Ravens tale.
Symbiosis is a performative, multiuser, and multisensory VR installation in which the human body will be redesigned. It allows every participant to embody a post-human or even nonhuman reality: a completely symbiotic human-animal or human-technologic relationship. Dutch experience design collective POLYMORF investigates in a speculative way how a more symbiotic exchange of genetic, cultural, and technological traits between people and other present or future living entities can increase or change the agency of all.
Two little sisters prepare for the Day of the Dead in the mystic mountains of Mexico, remembering the stories their shaman granny used to tell. A portal opens as the Mazatec community celebrates and we enter the interactive universe of their ancestors and the spirits of nature, each keeping a secret world to be unveiled.
Written and directed by Juanita Onzaga.
Los Angeles, 2025
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Are our memories as fictional and absurd as the cartoons we watched before school?
Told across platforms exploring the complexities of youth, school, and nostalgia. Memories come rushing back in this experience that invites you to become an active participant.
School Safety Patrol Officer Maximus C. Filmore leads us on a scavenger hunt, unlocking and uncovering forgotten memories as you re-visit a past that may never have existed. What is the real story? You can investigate at the exhibition and come together to decide at the live gig.
