SENTICS 2.0 is a process and a processing, an event for re/collection, de/encryption, and re/incorporation of the complex emotional scripts and memories from our digital experience. The event is facilitated by chris wood’s performance avatar, matte_screen, who demonstrates how to engage and embody the potential of our avatar’s emotions. Memories typed and submitted by the audience are live-encrypted, visualized, and projected into a virtual memorial space, and somatic engagement with elastic bands throughout the space affects the sound felt in the room and the gravity felt in the body. Comfort Station's interior becomes an imaginary AFK social media instance - generating space for digital-self-cultivation, through queer blurring of the ‘virtual’ and the ‘actual’, practiced attunement to communal processing, and a generous embrace of the integrity of the avatar.

Deepest gratitude to Courtney Mackedanz for their support in the research, development, and installation of the ongoing project of SENTICS.

Other Sensations was created as a companion piece to Mickel Maher’s Tedium (Theater Oobleck) and premiered at the 2019 Chicago International Puppet Theater Festival. An exploration of both boredom and transcendence, Other Sensations mixes video, sound, choreography and animated objects to create a world which questions the reality of choice and the idea of freedom.

created, directed, and performed by Mocrep members:
Alex Ellsworth, Deidre Huckabay, Lia Kohl, Zach Moore, Andrew Tham and Chris Wood

press:
“An eerie look at the myth of the American dream” - Maggie Ward, SCAPI Magazine: Puppets, Capitalism, and Déjà Vu: A Profile of Tedium and Other Sensations

“an overall bizarre piece which I have come to love” - Kenjiro Lee, Chicago Maroon: In Chicago, Puppets Take Center Stage

created in collaboration with / performance by mocrep,
Greater Minds Society is a theater piece in 4 acts.

The storyline of a dystopian live-work society offering to rid affect/ emotional memory from their initiates is reinforced by experiments in collaboratively-devised movement, physical sonic situation, custom body circuits/systems, and theatrical confrontation ... in effect creating a framework through fiction to confront the trying process of living and creating in screen-based community.

created by chris wood, performed by and in collaboration with anastasia clarke, kim nucci, simon/a otryba, kevin schwenkler

performance (~20'); 5 performers, machine learning computer, 6ch audio, 1ch video projection