Cleaning the Stables
Performance, Graphic Design, Branding
2023
Cleaning the Stables Documentary
Experience Diagram
Roles: Co-Producer, Visual Design Lead
Developed the main visual language for the experience, including all graphics, and supported the writing, experience design, playtesting, and co-led the logistical aspects of the piece. Additionally acted as a performer in the piece.
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Cleaning the Stables is a participatory sound walk meets locative cinema experience. Herakles’ fifth labor, redirecting two rivers to flush the stables, echoes on as a bizarre cult legend. In headphones, participants explore a speculative future of geoengineering and management systems gone wrong.
Presented at Without Walls (WOW) Festival 2023, the La Jolla Playhouse.
“Ash Eliza Smith and Robert Twomey‘s “Cleaning the Stables” had guests don headphones as they tidied up parts of Jacobs Park, asking us to listen to and record thoughts as we explored the sinister ways in which gamification is overtaking our daily lives.” (Los Angeles Times)
“Really joyous, really delightful, irreverent with a hint of poignancy around the environmental themes.” (No Proscenium podcast)
Developed the main visual language for the experience, including all graphics, and supported the writing, experience design, playtesting, and co-led the logistical aspects of the piece. Additionally acted as a performer in the piece.
Cleaning the Stables is a participatory sound walk meets locative cinema experience. Herakles’ fifth labor, redirecting two rivers to flush the stables, echoes on as a bizarre cult legend. In headphones, participants explore a speculative future of geoengineering and management systems gone wrong.
Presented at Without Walls (WOW) Festival 2023, the La Jolla Playhouse.
“Ash Eliza Smith and Robert Twomey‘s “Cleaning the Stables” had guests don headphones as they tidied up parts of Jacobs Park, asking us to listen to and record thoughts as we explored the sinister ways in which gamification is overtaking our daily lives.” (Los Angeles Times)
“Really joyous, really delightful, irreverent with a hint of poignancy around the environmental themes.” (No Proscenium podcast)
Graphic Materials
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Performance at Without Walls Festival 2023
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