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Photo of Fadumo Hassan and Xander Graves by Holly Revell
🎭 Interactive live theatre, hybrid in-person and online
Supported by: Arts Council England Project Grant, Innovate UK New Innovations in Communication Networks, Creative Catalyst Challenge Fund, Sheffield Theatres Bank Cohort programme, Barrel Organ LIVE test night, Theatre Delicatessen’s Social Model & More Festival,
Intrapology is a narrative story-world explored through a series of online and hybrid interactive performances. Intrapology stories take social constructivism literally to the point of absurdism, building a multiverse of collective worldings and entangled ways of becoming. Over the course of the series, Intrapology will examine how worlds that were once shared become divided, and how to reconnect.
Our original software Intrinsink facilitates interaction mechanics inspired by narrative-driven indie videogames: the audience votes for what the main character will say and do, and contributes free text to stream-of-consciousness rants.
I am the lead artist, but I work with a large number of highly skilled collaborators, including Soft Chaos Cooperative, Quiplash CIC, and guest writers such as Sarah Davis-Reynolds (D&D 20-sided Tavern) and Leigh Alexander (Reigns: Her Majesty)
https://peertube.intrapology.com/w/1pJKko5fAb8xji2QsHNH95?start=0s
Performances:
👾 Interactive documentary, videogame
Supported by: Arts Council England, Freelands Foundation, Space Studios London (European Regional Development Fund), Replicast Ltd.
Cis Penance is an interactive documentary allowing users to navigate a corpus of 45 interviews with UK transgender people, portraying experiences of deferment and waiting. I carried out these interviews in 2019-2021 through a series of residencies, remote and in-person.
I aimed to bring to the surface some of the non-binary and non-dual approaches to life and identity that emerge through trans experiences of queer time. To this end, I worked with transgender artists June Hornby and Liz Ryerson for the character designs and music (respectively).
Exhibitions
2020 Open City Documentary Festival
Space Studios London (2021)
Freelands Foundation, London (2021)
Site Gallery, Sheffield (2022)
Games in Action, University of British Columbia, Vancouver BC (2022)
Etc. Galerie, Prague (2023)
Now Play This, London (2024)
🏬 Social art and placemaking project
Supported by: Rotherham Metropolitan Borough Council, University of Sheffield Transforming and Activating Places, Social Enterprise Exchange
Photograph of the Typeset CIC bookshop in 2021
In 2021-2022 I operated a vintage bookshop in Rotherham town centre, aiming to create a semi-social creative space in an economically-deprived town that is rapidly losing its “third spaces” and retail stores. I recruited a board of 4 directors, all of us local creative people with disabilities or neurodivergent conditions, and secured funding to run a series of creative events to bring people together after the easing of pandemic restrictions. This included a series of tabletop worldbuilding games, as well as writing workshops and a livestreamed discussion between local authors.
In 2022 we put the shop into storage for a year to allow the directors time to recover. In September 2023, we moved out of storage into an office space, and launched new activities and products including a monthly subscription to hand-curated collage materials called Keep or Cut Up Club.
🎭 Interactive live theatre