Give me back my broken night

[ created in collaboration with Uninvited Guests ]

A mobile performance work using pervasive technology that asks audiences to collaboratively imagine the future of their city. Using a combination of location sensitive mobile devices and portable projectors it creates a magical, relevant and cinematic experience for participants.

“I take away the unforgettable sense of wonder at the first lightings of the map, the poetry of the authored texts, the intimacy of the relationship between guide-guided, and the incredible atmosphere of dreaming, contemplation and wandering the city as though in a film.” – Nina Steiger, Soho Theater

Watch a video about the project :

Audiences are given a mobile phone and a blank folded paper map, a micro projector is hung around their neck. In the streets, a performer guides them to vacant lots and buildings under construction, where they speak about what is actually being planned, but also ask the partipants about what they’d like to see there. As the audience describe their visions, an artists impression of their descriptions begins to appear on the paper in their hands as a series of glowing lines. They return to the theatre to meet other audience members, at which point the individual maps become projected as one on a table and all the participants describe, debate and share their visions for the future.

This project was created as part of the Theatre Sandbox project, commissioned by Pervasive Media Studio and developed with The Soho Theatre.