About
pronounced 'eye-square'
Contemporary performance through interdisciplinary collaborative co-creation.
Building audience-centered work where the missing element is you.
i² is for flow-seekers. i² holds space for the dedication it takes to pursue flow. We work with the highly ethical and deeply passionate. We connect and collaborate with emerging creatives who are on this journey.
i² emphasises collaborative conversation, creativity and interdisciplinary thinking across arts and sciences through engaging with the performing arts. We are keen to share these skills to benefit the current and future generations of innovators and workers through public engagement.
Flow into the future with us and turn your imagination into reality.
i² = -1
i is imaginary.
to make it real, i² = -1,
where -1, the missing element, is you.
We need your imagination to make this come to life.
The reference comes from mathematics, where i, as the root of -1, is an imaginary number, but i² (= -1) is real.
i² is about the meeting of two imaginations - the artist and the audience. In i², artist and audience become one, co-creating symbiotically.
The name i² potentially truncates interdisciplinary interface (but could also be interactive interface, improvisation installation, interactive improvisation etc.).
Your choice. your voice. move us.
does free will exist?
In offering the audience interaction and choice, we delve into the concept of free will in a seemingly deterministic universe.
history
i² started out with a pilot development of interactive performance installation featuring contemporary pole dance where the audience could interact with the performance on a mobile app. This was presented during director-choreographer Xin Ong’s Studio 7 residency at PS in 2022, supported by PS and the City of Fremantle. Ongoing development of the technology and world-building around this work led to the spin-off production of Splice alongside a team of emerging youth WA artists, supported by the Department of Local Government, Sport and Cultural Industries.
First presented as a 10-minute work at the Blue Room Theatre’s Summer Nights 2023 programme, then recommissioned for the Rechabite/Bird Bath’s Screen for Dreams 2023 projection on the State Library Wall, Splice is being performed as a 30-minute performance followed by conversation, supported by Fremantle Theatre Company and your support through ticket sales and generous tax-deductible giving through the Australian Cultural Fund.
What started out as a single work is now a contemporary performance practice, conversational co-creating that puts the audience at the centre. At i² , we create to connect.