Untitled Road
How much can you do for the forest of the future?
<Moving a Forest Theatre Game 1.0> is an audience-engaging theater game and play that tests if a forest being threatened by climate change can be moved. It was originally created as a board game in 2020 to save a near-extinction forest. After a year of beta testing, it was developed into a play performed in a black box.
Come join the play! You are invited as a junior researcher of the lab.
You have to save the forest; no one knows when it will be destroyed. According to the Crowther Lab in Zurich, Switzerland, trees would have to move 6.4 km north annually to find the same condition they are living in. However, there are not a lot of places left on earth for trees to thrive, because humans have taken most of them. If trees disappear, humanity will be in danger. Humans are used to development even in the face of crises caused by climate change; yet so many believe that no development means the end of the world. The audience visits Future Resources Office’s Ecology Lab where research to save forests is being conducted. Many research studies are in progress to save forests.
Which future is the one for humans and our planet? The audience determines the future of the forest. Each performance’s outcome will depend on what its participants decide to do.
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Kim Borahm is the director of creative group Untitled Road who produces works that tap into the characteristics of games, allowing the audience to experience a story and think about it. Kim’s interest lies in the flexibility of games in terms of expanding the audience’s performance experiences. She uses mobile apps, dimensional sound, AR and VR to expand the scope of performance experience. Having felt the impact of climate change, she recently started focusing on climate change-related situations where the relationships between humans and non-human organisms are intertwined.
Kim’s works include <Plug-in City> (2017), <Index for the Wonderful Adventure of Nils> (2018), <Theater Experiment through 3D Sound Technology> (2019), <Untitled Space> (2020) and <A Movable Forest: House on Fire> (2021).
Creation·Direction ｜ Kim Borahm
Creative Producer ｜ Park Jisun
Producer ｜ Choi Bongmin
Lighting Designer ｜ Tak Hyungsun
Lighting Crew ｜ Lee Sangmin
Scenographer ｜ Kim Hyewon
Sound Designer ｜ Jimmy Sert
Sound Operator ｜ Lee Yoon Kyung
Web ｜ Im Ohseong(Re-Look)
Stage Manager ｜ Jung Chanmi
Actor ｜ Kim Junwoo, Park Sunhee, Suh Jiwoo, Suh Hyunsung
Voice ｜Kim Yujin
Untitled Road is a project group created to conduct liberal experiments on how one experiences art works and offer exciting explorations on how one experiences spaces. Since 2015, the group has been producing game theaters of various types. They apply different types of games in their performances, encouraging the audience to participate in them. They use actual game engines to develop applications and apply the format of board games to allow the audience to focus on stories.
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