TechBox 2024: LEVEL 66 – The Arcade Project

EVENT DESCRIPTION

This July, TechBox returns to Freespace with LEVEL 66 – The Arcade Project, a participatory theatre experience that transforms The Box into a human arcade game lab.

Blending elements of gameplay and performance, LEVEL 66 – The Arcade Project invites the audience to become players in a clash of ideas. Entering this liminal space – at an unspecified mid-way stage of a complex, ongoing and possibly rigged process – players are presented with scenarios and actions, and one simple question: to play or not to play.

Devised by Ip Yuk-yiu, a media artist known for incorporating computer games into his creative works, LEVEL 66 – The Arcade Project explores game as method and metaphor in experimental performance. The work was created in collaboration with students, teachers and graduates from the School of Theatre and Entertainment Arts at The Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts, as well as the Technical and Production Team at West Kowloon Cultural District.

28 July 2024 (Sunday)
3:00pm

1–3 August 2024 (Thursday to Saturday)
8:00pm

3–4 August 2024 (Saturday, Sunday)
3:00pm

Approximately 120 minutes without intermission

ABOUT THE ARTIST / ORGANISER

TechBox is a collaborative platform established between WestK and the School of Theatre and Entertainment Arts at The Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts. The platform brings together media artists, theatre designers, faculty members and students to explore new frontiers of technology and performance and devise experimental creations in a technological context.

In 2021, the opening programme art TALKS tech presented work by audio engineers, sound artists and artists specialising in digital kinetic sculptures and multimedia. Since 2022, TechBox has offered public presentations on the research and development process for creating technological works and extended teaching content.