Naturalistic

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.

Our first live action story takes place in the middle of downtown Los Angeles where a meteor shower has left a deep scar on the streets of Chinatown. Panic, fear and an alien sends a young woman scrambling to escape. Directed by Justin Lin (Fast & Furious, Star Trek Beyond).

2016 CANNES LIONS GOLD LION AWARD WINNER for VIRTUAL REALITY and TECHNOLOGICAL ACHIEVEMENT

2016 Webby Award Winner for Advertising & Media: Best Use of Animation or Motion Graphics

2016 Communication Arts Interactive Winner for “Tablet & Handheld Devices”

Question: How are we to treat others?
Answer: There are no others

-Ramana Maharishi

The seemingly unthinkable has occurred.

We have become those people from the remote places we see on our screens. Thrust into crisis and driven from our homes into uncomfortable proximity with others whom we had pretended to happily co-exist with but perhaps preferred to ignore, inside the Muster Station, our fragile prejudices and assumptions are exposed.

‘I MAKE SEX REALISTIC. NOT REAL. IT’S ALL CHOREOGRAPHY.’

How do you have sex on stage? How do you even have sex?

To try and find an answer, each night, two brand new performers tell a story of desire, betrayal, and loneliness. They have never rehearsed together or read the script. They are strangers.

But they are not alone — to help and guide them they are joined on stage by an Intimacy Director, trained in the art of teaching people how to touch. So you can rest assured that the sex is safe. It is consensual. And it is good.

Originally commissioned by New Diorama Theatre.

Co-produced by Brighton Festival and HOME Manchester.

Supported by China Plate, Corn Exchange Newbury, The New Wolsey Theatre and Redbridge Drama Centre.

Requiem: A Celebration of Life and Achievement, was a devised immersive theatrical experience that was part memorial service and part graduation.

Virtual reality dance in the Gallery

How can dance interpret and respond to our paintings and architecture?

How can movement animate our space and art and help us see both in new ways?

How can we share the experience of watching a live dance performance in the Gallery with people who live far away?

Alejandro G. Iñárritu's Academy Award®-winning virtual reality experience CARNE y ARENA (Virtually present, Physically invisible) explores the human condition of immigrants and refugees.

Black Mirror: Bandersnatch is a 2018 interactive film in the science fiction anthology series Black Mirror. It was written by series creator Charlie Brooker and directed by David Slade. The film premiered on Netflix on 28 December 2018, its release date was only officially announced the day before.

ALL STORIES BEGIN IN OUR ENDINGS. WE INVENT THEM BECAUSE WE DIE

To Be a Machine, Mark O’Connell

An early iteration of a future project, To Be a Machine (Version 1.0) is an adaptation of the Wellcome prize-winning book by Mark O’Connell: an exploration of Transhumanism, a movement whose aim is to use technology to fundamentally change the human condition, to improve our bodies and minds to the point where we become something other, and better, than the animals we are.