Motivations and priorities
We care about:
- A flourishing culture of networked live art that centres people who have been let down by the illusory “return to normal”: disabled, chronically ill, and neurodivergent people, as well as people who face other barriers to in-person venues such as geographic inequality.
- Anti-racist and decolonial worlding, neuroqueering, and solidarity with all oppressed people.
- Sustainable technology, frugal computing, indieweb, open source, right to repair, keeping the web free, and pursuing the dream of permacomputing. No blockchain, no Web3, no “AI”.
Design pillars
- Stay with the trouble in an entangled mess of a world
- Engage with the failures of our crumbling infrastructure and institutions, explore how to live well in broken systems, and use humour for catharsis while resisting doomerism. Use diegetic interfaces that respond narratively to errors and failures. “Things are not supposed to work perfectly” - in the production of the show the actors are engaging with the literal systemic failures of our existing infrastructure, as well as narratively exploring how to live well in broken systems.
- Explore agency as a spectrum
- Critically explore individual and collective agency, different flavours of agency, and free will in a disabling world. Interaction goes beyond choose-your-own-adventure mechanics: audiences influence tone, contribute thoughts to live stream-of-consciousness rants, and vote on significant choices that affect the plot.
- Enact solidarity across borders and barriers
- Combine universal design with the broke-ass queer aesthetics of glitching recycled computers. Reach towards permacomputing, with low-impact technologies. Adopt an intersectional understanding of mobility, grounding fictional transdimensional travel in the lived experiences of migrants and refugees as well as disabled and chronically ill people. Decentralise, decarbonise, decolonise