III · Thalia
PLAY
What happens if we experiment?
The Experience
Unveiled
PLAY is an immersive storytelling workshop about discovering a character through the clues they leave behind.
Working individually and together, participants collect objects, images, sounds, words, memories, and visual fragments. We follow these traces, remix them, and allow unexpected connections to appear.
Through storytelling, cut-up, assemblage, visual metaphor, sound, movement, and collaborative world-building, a character gradually takes shape.
Just as the brain detects patterns in the visual forms of nature—a face, a figure, a flower—and in sound, so too it detects patterns in information. Stories are recognizable patterns, and in those patterns we find meaning. We use stories to make sense of our world and to share that understanding with others.
— Frank Rose
They are the signal within the noise
A Whale Tale | Collective Artwork
The Framework
From clues to a living world
A character is rarely introduced all at once. Sometimes we meet them through a voice, an object, a gesture, a shadow, a photograph—or a small unexplained trace.
Who are they?
Where do they come from?
What do they carry with them?
What happened before we met them?
As participants bring their clues together, we look for relationships: recurring symbols, strange coincidences, contrasts, memories, textures, sounds, places, and stories.
A mood becomes a landscape.
An object becomes a clue. A clue becomes an event.
An image becomes a place.
A character begins to move through it.
Together, we construct the first fragments of a collective story-world. Its form remains open: an installation, a map, a performance, a film, a collection of story objects—or something we haven’t imagined yet.
There is no single answer.
We play until the story begins to reveal itself.
Mixed Media Installation
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