Hunter-Hunted

Hunter-Hunted is a digitally augmented solo performance exploring themes of addiction, depression, and rebirth through the relationship between a performer and a responsive sonic environment. Using spatialized sound, projection, and live-triggered technology, the piece stages a tension between control and surrender—where the performer both hunts and is hunted by the world around them. 

Developed through Lawrence Halprin’s RSVP creative framework, the work treats technology not as a spectacle, but as a visible extension of the performer’s agency. Sound is triggered and manipulated live through a wearable interface, making the mechanics of the performance transparent and foregrounding the performer’s role in shaping the environment. 

As the performance unfolds, abstract actions and symbolic objects build a fragmented narrative: the loss of innocence, the descent into internal struggle, and the possibility of renewal. Everyday materials—branches, fruit, masks—become theatrical signifiers allowing meaning to emerge through audience interpretation rather than fixed storytelling. 

Blurring the boundary between human presence and digital response, Hunter-Hunted asks whether we control the systems around us, or whether we are shaped by them—and asks what it means to reclaim agency within that loop.