Projects
Charged Encounter
Charged Encounter
Charged Encounter is an XR experience and immersive theatre show where audiences are invited to navigate through both real and fantastical scenes, confronting their own identities, biases, and participation.
Highlighting the complexities of living in the UK as a marginalised person today, CE act as a playful bridge to evoke understandings of perception, politics, intimacy, and reality; a story of resilience, reclamation, and belonging.
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£50,000
Interrogating the unseen politics of visibility, sociological labour, community, survival, transformation, and joy in a journey of belonging.
Aims of the project
This project is as much about co-authorship and accessibility as technological innovation; building bridges between formats to expand representation and create spaces of solidarity, excitement, intimacy reimagining modalities of storytelling.
The work exists in two outputs linked by a shared script, score, and digital assets, which together form overarching narratives. In VR, audiences embody avatars as they navigate exploratory scenes, make choices, engage in gameplay, and travel through dreamlike portals and hostile city streets. Expanding to multi-level, multi-path, voice-narrated, character-driven, and enhanced interactive roaming environments that mirror and reimagine the contemporary socio-political landscape. Offering agency, wider accessibility, personalisation and intimate interactions.
Players unlock backstories through integrated 360° music videos. The live performance repurposes VR assets into a collective, multi-sensory space that merges theatre, club, and game environments. Using TouchDesigner , projection, laser mapping, and haptic sound, audiences receive AR prompts that co-create responsive visuals, transforming spectatorship into a collaborative experience. Rooted in first-person storytelling, shaped by many voices, Exposing the fragility of safety and the blessings of transformation.
Dæmon Clelland
Lead artist
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TS DÆMON (FKA Shrek 666) is one of Scotland’s most innovative queer artists. Their work spans live art, SFX, music production, drag, visual arts, intimacy industries, and community organising.
A Glasgow School of Art graduate, they are currently developing an immersive, interactive theatre production while pursuing a master’s in social sciences, specialising in gender theory, policy, and restorative justice.
Through technology, sound, the body, and trans* (be)comings, they interrogate masculinity, embodiment, desire, and patriarchal systems of representation. Blurring distinctions of fact, fetish, fiction, and fantasy, they craft radical sensorial experiences that challenge dominant narratives and reimagine new possibilities.
Emma Thompson
Producer
Emma is co-director of From the Other, home to three Salford organisations: Fat Out, Samarbeta Music Residency Programme and Sounds from the Other City. From the Other is a not-for-profit, values-driven organisation specialising in innovative live music productions, with a focus on championing underrepresented artists and grassroots culture. Emma is a fat queer woman who lives between Salford and Ynys Môn, at her best surrounded by the LGBTQIA+ community plotting raucous and rowdy events.
Klaire Tanner
Klaire is a Welsh immersive artist and creative director working with XR, 3D art and real-time game engines to create interactive, user-centred experiences. Originally trained as a fine artist, Klaire’s practice has developed over 15 years across large-scale digital production and emerging technologies. Alongside a strong focus on visual craft, lighting, texture, composition and atmosphere, they’re particularly interested in UX and UI, designing not just what audiences see, but the overall experience and how they move, feel and participate. At its core, their work is about making meaningful experiences that feel a little like magic.
Niki Zaupa
Creative Technologist
Niki Zaupa is a Stage Designer, Visual Artist, VJ and Lighting Designer working across the Glasgow underground music scene as well as corporate events and festivals. Their practice focuses on immersive visual environments that merge spatial design, live visuals, and lighting performance. they’ve been collabprating with Dæmon through the past years development of No Silence, No Saints.
Kasra Jalilipour
Dramaturg
Kasra Jalilipour (1995. Esfahan) is an Iranian artist, and writer, based in the the UK. Their interdisciplinary practice takes on the forms of sculpture, installation, moving image, text, and live performance. Through a positive obsession with histories of otherness they use methods of speculation to rewrite and reshape lost histories. The visual language in their works is often inspired by Imageries and texts from cultural and religious practices in the middle-east and Europe.
An0moly
Performer
