interplay_2027
calls about

Romi Kim

interplay_

festival of live online performance

interplay_’s been many things over the years. We started in 2012 as a multidisciplinary group show in the Moberly Arts & Cultural Centre's fieldhouse theatre. The Contingency Plan (Vanessa Goodman + Jane Osborne) were the first producers, passing it on to Deanna Peters/Mutable Subject in 2016. In 2021, interplay_ moved online, swiftly filling a dire need for liveness and connection-from-a-distance amidst pandemic shutdowns. What we found online wasn't a stand-in for what we lost, but an emergent and wondrous space that we continue to nurture today. In 2025, leadership passed to Caroline and Sammy Chien-MacCaull of Chimerik 似不像. Their expertise in new media interactive technology, combined with a deep commitment to interdisciplinary art and live performance, ensures interplay_ remains a vital space for experimentation and collaboration.

past artists + forms

Alana Gerecke dance, amalgam body, academic research

Alex Mah anti-performance, anti-art performance

Alexa Mardon dance, writing

arya cultural, simulated, realtime

Brady Marks + Michelle Helene Mackenzie live code, modular synthesis

Brandy Leary choreographic research, videography

Brian Postalian participatory theatre

Carolina Bergonzoni + Joel Salaysay choreography, movie-making

Chantal & Choo collective meditation, touch designer, dance

Claire Love Wilson song walking

Dave Biddle + Patrick Blenkarn wisdom tools, restorative physics

Elliot Vaughan advice, fortune, existentialism

erψn temp3st dance, live video mixing

Find Mutya experimental video, music, movement, poetry, textiles

Freya Björg Olafson webcamera, skype, dance

Ghinwa Yassine gesture, protest, anti-disciplinary

Ivetta Sunyoung Kang instructions, somatics, ASMR indexing, anecdotal sculpture

Jasmine Liaw + Caroline MacCaull movement, new media, AI, dreamstates, queerness

Jessica Leung poetry, ASL performance

JK JK (khattieQ + Jenny Larson) performance art, punk, devised theatre

Kelly McInnes + Roxanne Nesbitt dance, sound, projection

Kendell Yan (Maiden China) + Romi Kim (SKIM) drag, green screen, video mixing

Kerri Flannigan storytelling, projection

Kevin Jesuino theatre, dance, video, community-engaged art

Kivanç Tatar w/ Tamar Tabori creative artificial intelligence, dance

konjo world building, DJing, media collage

Lara A. Abadir, Stefan Smulovitz, Catherine Falkner + Luis G. Canton interdisciplinary performance

Luciana Freire D'Anunciação + Brandon Schwinn dance, video, poetry, field recordings

Margaret Dragu + Brady Marks w/ Justine A. Chambers choreography-by-chance, social architecture, video, sound, inner landscapes

Mark Bath animation, dance, video, projection

Miguel Maravilla spoken word, sound collage, multi-media video

Nathan Marsh, Clara Chow + Yian Chen sound objects, movement

Niloufar Samadi w/ Avideh Saadatpajouh glitch, memory, in-betweenness

Nita Bowerman performance, digital media

Patrick Blenkarn performance, video gaming

Raj Gill virtual tour, performance art

Robert Abubo dance karaoke

seeley quest ritual, play, interactive invitations

Shelby Wright + Katie Lyle dance, visual art

Shereen Ramprashad + Derek Brueckner projection, gestural collage, spoken word

Sidi Chen ritual performance

Sophie Maguire + Azaia Windwraith performance, film, landscape

Stéphanie Cyr w/ Ted Littlemore site-specific, drag, mockumentary

Too Much Collective (Ghinwa Yassine + Luciana Fortes) auto-fiction, installation, movement

Vincent Isabel auto-surveillance, object perspective, sound

Ziyian Kwan movement, books, song

Since shifting from an in-theatre to online festival in 2021, we focus on supporting independent artists and live online art. We're always looking to meet new artists, audiences and sponsors... Let's connect :)

email

@interplay_arts