okay.odd. [2016]

Based on the tenets of concentration, mindfulness, and visualization, okay.odd. is a multimedia meditation session that guides you through a stream of consciousness. It traverses the space between thought and perception; knowing and unknowing; real and imagined; proximal and tangential. In converging our thinking minds, our unconscious ideas, and our implicitly held beliefs, you are encouraged to breathe. Don’t think. Part spiritual retreat and part commentary on our image-inundated affect-obsessed society, okay.odd. is an invitation to encounter the version of you that you feel, but do not know. Created by Milton Lim with Aryo Khakpour Written, Directed, and Designed by Milton Lim Performed by Aryo Khakpour Dramaturgy by Natalie Tin Yin Gan Sound and Media Consultation by Remy Siu Promotional photos by Tim Matheson okay.odd. will premiere at Upintheair Theatre’s rEvolver Festival in May 2016, quickly followed by a presentation at Intrepid Theatre's Uno Fest. The original short-length version was commissioned by Theatre Replacement and Shadbolt Centre for the Arts as part of Back Away, Slowly in June 2015. Thank you to Alex Mah, Stefan Smulovitz, Ray Hsu, Sandy Wang, Zoe Quinn, and Claire Love Wilson.

Based on the tenets of concentration, mindfulness, and visualization, okay.odd. is a multimedia meditation session that guides you through a stream of consciousness. It traverses the space between thought and perception; knowing and unknowing; real and imagined; proximal and tangential. In converging our thinking minds, our unconscious ideas, and our implicitly held beliefs, you are encouraged to breathe. Don’t think.

Part spiritual retreat and part commentary on our image-inundated affect-obsessed society, okay.odd. is an invitation to encounter the version of you that you feel, but do not know.

Created by Milton Lim, with Aryo Khakpour

Text, Voice-Over, Direction, and Projection Design by Milton Lim
Performance by Aryo Khakpour
Dramaturgy by Natalie Tin Yin Gan
Media and Sound Consultation by Remy Siu

Photos by Maiko Bae Yamamoto and Tim Matheson

Thank yous: 
Davey Calderon, Tim Carlson, Ray Hsu, Joyce Rosario, Stefan Smulovitz, Zoe Quinn, Sandy Wang, Claire Love Wilson, Theatre Conspiracy, Theatre Replacement, and Shadbolt Centre for the Arts.

Running time: 50 minutes

The short-length version was created for Back Away, Slowly with Theatre Replacement + Shadbolt Centre for the Arts [Burnaby, BC] in 2015. The full-length premiere was presented by Upintheair Theatre as part of their 2016 rEvolver Theatre Festival.

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