Anti-Gone: A Mixed Reality Performance by Theo Triantafyllidis

Human Resources presents Theo Triantafyllidis’ debut feature-length performance, Anti-Gone, a sprawling experiment in 3D world-building, real-time simulation, interactivity and theatricality. Adapted from the eponymous graphic novel by Connor Willumsen, Triantafyllidis takes the idiosyncratic narrative and visual style of Anti-Gone as a platform to explore the possibilities and limitations of what was once called “Theater”. As Triantafyllidis re-created the world of Willumsen’s Anti-Gone as a series of 3D scenes, performers Matthew Doyle, Lindsey Normington and Zana Gankhyug embarked on improvisational excursions in this mediated world. Exploring dramatic tropes from absurdist theater to psychological realism and somatic awareness. The game engine performs alongside the actors, virtual reality headsets, and motion capture suits, and using these tools, Triantafyllidis directs and shapes the world that is being presented to both the performers and the audience in real time. Anti-Gone asserts theatricality as a new way of thinking fictionally, as real space is re-incorporated into subjective game logic. The audience is given a theater re-invigorated with new techniques for pleasure and play as the world outside simulates its own destruction… In a post-climate change world, environmental catastrophe has become normalized. Cities are sunken, yet the vestiges of late-capitalist culture – consumerism, inequality, social unrest – live on, clinging like barnacles to the ruins of civilization. Spyda and Lynxa are a couple navigating this world frictionlessly. On their sailboat, they glide from shopping to movies to psychedelic drugs. In a damaged world where you can have anything you want, what’s the cost? Duration: 3 acts, 60mins, no intermission Human Resources LA 410 Cottage Home St, Los Angeles, CA 90012 Based on the original comic book by Connor Willumsen Produced by Matthew Doyle Starring Lindsey Normington, Zana Gankhuyag, Matthew Doyle Lighting Design by Connor Childs Sound by Jeffrey Alan Scudder Production Assistant Polina Miliou Special Thanks to Mari Spirito Theo Triantafyllidis is represented by The Breeder, Athens and Meredith Rosen, New York.