Boho presents interactive science-theatre performances for festivals, schools, conferences and symposia. Since forming in 2001, the ACT-based company has developed a reputation throughout Australia for vital, stimulating cross-artform performances. Boho's original productions integrate ideas and concepts from Game Theory, Network Theory and Complex Systems science with tools and techniques from narrative performance, lo- and hi-fi media art, live music and audience-driven theatre.
2010
Boho are pleased to announce that we have successfully sought funding as part of the 2010 ArtsACT Project Funding round. This will contribute to the production and presentation of a new work in mid-2010 at Belconnen Arts Centre. Over the next few months, Boho will be conducting extensive research into the nature of interactivity in narrative performance and developing an open directory of artists and performance styles. Based on this research we will be devising a new work, examining the life and science of William Stanley Jevons, a 19th Century polymath who contributed to fields such as economics, logic, sociology and computing.
Boho gratefully acknowledges the support of ArtsACT and the ACT Government, the Powerhouse Museum in Sydney, and the Belconnen Arts Centre.
Spring 2009
Boho held an open panel discussion as part of the Crack Theatre Festival at This Is Not Art in Newcastle, on the topic of interactivity in performance. We recently undertook a week's creative residency at PACT Theatre, from 12–16 October. In late August, we moved into our new studio at Belconnen Arts Centre. Recent performances by Boho have included the Belconnen Arts Centre opening day, in2change, and the Manning Clark House Festival of Ideas.
Food for the Great Hungers
In January 2009, Boho completed a 4-week residency at the Manning Clark House Scholarly and Cultural Centre to research and devise an interactive installation performance entitled 'Food for the Great Hungers', based on Complex Systems science and Australian history. This process was supported by the Australia Council Inter-Arts office, the Manning Clark House Scholarly and Cultural Centre, Leximancer Software and the Foundation for Young Australians' Hunting Season.
A Prisoner's Dilemma
Boho's 2007-8 Game Theory-based performance A Prisoner's Dilemma featured in the National Multicultural Fringe Festival (ACT), the Adelaide Fringe Festival (SA), the Brisbane Festival Under The Radar Fringe (QLD), CSIRO's Friday Lecture series (ACT), the Street Theatre's Independent Season (ACT), the Asia-Pacific Complex Systems Conference (QLD) and an ACT high school / college tour funded by the Foundation for Young Australians.
