Thesis Abstract

The High Focus Institute presents a series of experiential performance installations concerning the relationships of belief, empiricism and technology. We propose new ways of reconfiguring the relationship of self narrative, made objects and society by using constructed realities as systems of subjective truth for the purposes of self knowledge.


This experience takes the form of a series of rituals conducted for small groups of participants within an immersive projected environment. Each group is guided through the process by two performers acting as intermediary between the interactive technologies and social interactions they are designed to facilitate. Within these circumstances the performers aid the participants in questioning their self narratives and translating these questions into sensory experiences.