The Exponential Festival Presents: FISH

The Exponential Festival presents FISH by SOUR MILK and Hillary Gao

FISH is an absurd work of playable theater that explores consumption and the pressures that drive it. Players are fish that transform based on what they eat – but conflict emerges when other players appear as predator and prey.

Conceived by Christina Tang, Carsen Joenk, Anna Jastrzembski, and Hillary Gao
Commissioned by The Exponential Festival
Video Design by David Pym
Production Management by Jesse Itskowitz
Image by Christina Tang

Find them: @sourmilk.xyz @rhodamined @carsenjoe @annie_jaster @hillarywgao

​​You are hungry

    Don’t / Eat me

You are lonely

    Tell me a secret

You are lost

    Come with me

FISH is the latest in SOUR MILK’s social game x interactive theater experiments. Audience members engage with the show both as spectators and as players in a video game, with live performers on stage creating the game ‘world’ in real time through object theater and live feed composition. As player choices affect the ecosystem, performers enact the consequences in real time.

​​FISH is made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature.

Runtime: 70 min

The Exponential Festival is a 501c3 January performance festival for NYC-based artists working in experimental performance. The participants in this multi-artist, multi-venue festival are committed to ecstatic creativity in the face of commercialism. Exponential is driven by inclusiveness and a diversity of artists, forms, and ideas coupled with utopian resource-sharing, mentoring and the championing of risky, rigorous work in eclectic fields. theexponentialfestival.org