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The Escape Room
How can we use choreography to reimagine how we interact within the public space
“Very relaxing, nice to meet different people, nice people.”
“Really engaging workshops that encouraged creativity, contemplation and collaboration.”
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“ I also felt suddenly in control having been left along with my thoughts.”
The Escape Room is a public art event consisting of interactive workshops and an immersive art installation that uses choreographic practices to reorganize the way the public interacts with the modern environment, commenting on the demands of modern society.
It offered creative and collaborative workshops that invited spectators to engage in critical thought in a supportive creative environment:
- Salt Mandalas
- Conversation Cards
- Self-Portraits
- Hand Dance
These workshops encouraged spectators to take personal creative risks, supported by facilitators and fellow participants.
The Escape Room installation provided a reflective space where spectators could contemplate their experiences within the public space, inviting them to activate their critical thinking.
Art does not activate us; rather, it gives us an opportunity to activate it, to switch it on and make it happen (Noe, 2015, p. 82).
The aim of this research project was to explore how art and performance practices create philosophical objects and environments that reorganize how the public thinks and acts within their space. It also highlighted that if performance and art practices are not aware of how they are influenced by capitalist ideologies, then these philosophical environments and objects are restricted by the modern identities of the practitioners and limited by the realities of the contemporary environment.