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.
True Logic of the Future
8.00pm Tuesday 13 – Saturday 17 July & 6.00pm Sunday 18 July
Belconnen Arts Centre, 118 Emu Bank, Belconnen
Tickets $25 / $18, Bookings 6173 3300
More information: contact Michael Bailey
0422 225 585 info@bohointeractive.com
Drawing on the ideas of 19th century economist, meteorologist, logician, musician, programmer, 3D photographer, philosopher and cloud-maker William Stanley Jevons, cross-artform ensemble Boho weave narrative theatre, interactive sequences and a live soundtrack of trombone / electronica into a taut science-fiction thriller exploring the choices we make when we run out of choices.
True Logic of the Future takes place in the near future in a city on the brink of collapse. Farmland drought and coastal floods drive refugees into the city, industry collapses and protestors fill the streets. Social systems are failing and disaster is imminent. Three citizens chosen at random must confront a decision that will transform their society's future.
As the challenges and threats that face 21st century civilisation loom larger, True Logic asks the question: How much would you sacrifice for the greater good?
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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.
