Projects
Two Truths: Fractured Realities
Two Truths: Fractured Realities
Two Truths addresses a contemporary concern: how people can inhabit entirely different truths online, shaped more by belief than fact. An immersive audio experiment where participants experience conflicting versions of the same event through binaural sound.
Two Truths addresses a contemporary concern: how people can inhabit entirely different truths online, shaped more by belief than fact. We will prototype a live performance where audiences share the same space but hear divergent binaural mixes through bone-conducting headphones. These keep ears open to live voices while layering alternative realities directly onto the body.
At the centre is the writing. With a writer and young co-creators, we will craft short narrative fragments that deliberately conflict: a line withheld, an emphasis shifted, a detail altered. These divergences only exist through the technology; the story is structured by fracture. This mirrors how social media and algorithms deliver multiple realities at once.
Experiment
£20,000
Audiences share the same room but inhabit different stories. Two Truths is an immersive audio experiment where participants experience conflicting versions of the same event through binaural sound.
Aims of the project
A web-based app will act as a dramaturgical device. Participants log quick responses, mood, certainty, and credibility, creating a live record of perceived truth. This is then surfaced in a facilitated debrief, which forms part of the artwork: the moment where private experiences collide in public reflection.
The experiment will test whether divergent tracks remain clear and powerful, whether audience inputs deepen rather than distract, and how dialogue reshapes perception. These findings will underpin a full-scale production interrogating misinformation and polarisation.
Meet the artists
Rob Watt
Lead Artist
he/him
Rob’s practice is rooted in story-led, audience-centred design. With over twenty years’ experience across theatre and live entertainment, he has directed new writing on national tours and designed large-scale gameshows for MSC Cruises as well as immersive work for BBC Studios and Explora Journeys. His focus is on giving audiences genuine agency inside a story: power that feels authentic, not cosmetic.
Bethany Wells
Lead Artist
she/her
Bethany’s practice spans devised theatre, dance and installation, with training in architecture from the Bartlett and RCA. Her work treats space as both medium and subject, combining technical rigour with a socially engaged approach. As Artists’ Child, she creates narratively driven sound and spatial journeys, drawing on ritual and sensory design to open environments where audiences enter altered states of perception.
