Projects in Development

Let’s Get Lost

Let’s Get Lost features a group of performers equipped with wearable live-streaming webcams, GPS trackers and old-school pagers. Blindfolded and stripped of monetary resources, the performers are transferred to a remote area and left with one mission: to find their way back to the audience, depending on the kindness of strangers.

Meanwhile, audience members are tasked with helping the performers by sending messages, giving directions and even calling businesses in the vicinity of the performer to request their support.

In a world dominated by digital addictions, instantaneous and infinite access to knowledge (and Google Maps!), Let’s Get Lost takes a critical look at our tendency to avoid being lost. While constant online connectivity, information overload and a false sense of certainty has become the norm, Let’s Get Lost posits that uncertainty in life is both healthy and essential for building resilience.

Let’s Get Lost is being developed with BASE in Milan, Italy in collaboration with 35 young people, and Homo Novus in Riga, Latvia. The project was conceived from ideas explored in phase one of our Mammalian Droppings initiative with Homo Novus, continuing that partnership.

Collaborators include: Darren O’Donnell, Alice Fleming, Isabel Ahat, Virginia Antonipillai, Ngawang Luding, alongside Tech Consultant David Mesiha and digital artist Zia Gul Sadeqi.

My Thing → Your Thing

Created in collaboration with 20 young people from South Korea and their local neighbours, My Thing → Your Thing activates a community of people, bringing them together to co-perform in a unique auction-style spectacle, featuring original songs that weave in the neighbour’s stories behind their objects, all driven by the curiosity of the young people. Believing that fact is more interesting than fiction, My Thing → Your Thing approaches the question of object acquisition by introducing the object, unadulterated, into a community exchange where generosity and the power of the object’s story take center stage.

My Thing → Your Thing is being developed in South Korea with support from the Canada Council’s Canada-Korea Co-creation Fund.

Collaborators include: Rhian Hinkley, Ivy Hinkley, Alice Fleming, Ngawang Luding, Virginia Antonipillai, and Darren O’Donnell.

Playgrounds on Fire!

Playgrounds on Fire! is a participatory experience in which a mixed hearing-and-deaf* audience is confronted by a playground that just won’t stop burning. In order to douse the fires, the audience has to come together to solve a series of puzzles, the clues for which are shared by our young team. There’s just one rule:

No spoken language!

The team can point, use sign language, red lights, green lights, massive emojis; anything in the world except spoken language!

Playgrounds on Fire! is being developed by an intergenerational deaf/hearing inclusive team in partnership with FELD Theater für junges Publikum in Berlin, Germany.

Collaborators include: Elli Kühne, Mia Wiethoff, Anna Deul, Darren O’Donnell, Jan Kress, Manuel Ahnemüller, and Steve Heather, who makes music you can feel in your bones.

*Deaf is a positive self-designation of non-hearing people, regardless of whether they are deaf, profoundly deaf or hard of hearing.