protoPLAY

Interactive performance at The Permanent Gallery- 90 minutes, Brighton, 2006.

protoPLAY engineered to make a performance/installation with 96 hours notice of its theme.

The theme, provided by The Permanent Gallery was:

“Meet a stranger, who knows neither protoPLAY nor The Permanent Gallery. This Encounter will provide the catalyst for your performance.”

The event was thus based on this idea of encounter. We disguised all of the audience, so that they could be permanently strangers. We used a wireless camera/audio link to get the audience in the gallery to invite new people from the street into the gallery to meet - who would then invite new people and so on and so on, unril the whole gallery was filled with complete strangers who hadn’t been expecting this , or even to go to a gallery - who were finding new ways to engage with each other and other strangers on the street.
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