Commission #24

Fortnight

The Idea

Fortnight is a two-week long, fully immersive, experience based in the interactions and communications of daily life, through ubiquitous forms of technology. Up to 200 Manchester residents sign up to receive communications that are delivered to their mobile phones, email, and home addresses; these messages contain a series of poetic nudges that encourage those participating to question their sense of place. Participants also receive daily invitations to visit locations throughout their city where they can pause to reflect on what it means to ‘be here now’. Fortnight enables our participants to interact with and perceive the world around them as the performance itself; the place where we act out our own daily lives. In Fortnight, the spectator becomes participant; the journey becomes narrative. Having tested Fortnight in the small cities of Bristol and Lancaster, Proto-type are seeking to explore, expand and reshape Fortnight for Manchester, a significantly larger city.

Profile

Proto-type Theater

Proto-type Theater is a company of multi-disciplinary artists interested in live performance. Creating original works that are diverse in scale, subject and medium, Proto-type is currently exploring the distributed narrative, city as source/site, and the relationship between opera, technology and narrative. Proto-type’s work is demanding and intricately crafted to create experiences for a diverse audience of intelligent, modern humans