A MITU EXPANSION WORK

2021

A new work by Guilty By Association as part of Under The Radar Festival

Co-creation, Data Curation, Performance: Cole Lewis
Co-creation, Programming, Performance: Patrick Blenkarn
Co-creation, Programming, Music + Sound Design: Sam Ferguson

Under the glow of a flickering screen, a daughter reconstructs her deceased father. Pixel by pixel, contradiction by contradiction.

2021 is a live performance where theatre, AI, and video-game storytelling converge, blurring the boundary between human remembrance and machine logic. An audience member steps into the role of Brian, an unhoused veteran reliving his final weeks inside a looping digital hospital: a labyrinth of corridors, bureaucratic dead ends, and fleeting human contact. Guided by his daughter’s narration, fragments of data become playable memory. Each decision glitches reality a little more.

How do we provide dignity in death to those we fundamentally disagree with? Part elegy, part experiment, 2021 exposes the tenderness and terror of digital resurrection. It asks not whether machines can think, but whether memory itself is a kind of simulation.

For more information about the artists: guiltybyassociation.ca

For more info on Mitu: theatermitu.org 

For more info on Under the Radar:utrfest.org

PERFORMANCE SCHEDULE:

Friday, January 9 @ 8PM
Saturday, January 10 @ 4PM
Sunday, January 11 @ 7PM
Monday, January 12 @ 8PM
Tuesday, January 13 @ 8PM
Wednesday, January 14 @ 8PM
Thursday, January 15 @ 8pm
Friday, January 16 @ 8PM
Saturday, January 17 @ 4PM

There is no late seating. If the performance you want to attend is sold out, please email us to join the waitlist. Unclaimed tickets will be released 10min prior to showtime. If you have any questions about your tickets, please email [email protected], no phone calls please.  Thank you!