Everybody’s looking for something

for now, You’ve found some
techno-troublemakers…

Counterpilot is an award-winning collective of interdisciplinary artists based in Meanjin/Magandjin (Brisbane, Australia).

Together, we create interactive performance works - activating audiences with new technology, rich design, and transmedia storytelling. Counterpilot seeks to transform the familiar, juxtaposing rich fictional worlds against a backdrop of the everyday.

By subverting real social circumstances, we co-opt our participants as authentic performers. In this way we are harnessing what we believe to be the most exciting thing about theatre - the live audience. Our theatre doesn’t just tell stories, it creates stories. It offers new ways of sharing time and space so that communities might explore new modes of relating to each other, of understanding the world around them, and expressing themselves.

We seek to provoke refreshed perceptions through acts of trouble, mischief and low-key chaos. Our distinct Australianness emerges with wry humour and a larrikin sensibility, as we play in the space between people, and we poke at the tensions that bind us.

Counterpilot is directed by Nathan Sibthorpe, with Core Creatives Christine Felmingham, Mike Willmett & Elizabeth Hunt.

”AN ENIGMATIC LIVE ART CONSPIRACY WHICH ALL THE COOL KIDS WILL WANT TO JOIN...
NO ONE ELSE IS MAKING WORK QUITE LIKE THIS.”
- THE AGE