PRESENT MISCHIEF
PIGEON FOOL
@ HORIZON FESTIVAL
A theatrical Turing Test meets Game Show to prove your humanness amidst the AI Revolution, returning to Horizon Festival in 2025. Are you up for the challenge?
THE AWE EXPERIMENT
@ WORLD SCIENCE FESTIVAL
Science-adjacent, determinedly explorative and restlessly curious, this is an experiment on artistic terms. Join us in our collective quest to feel something.
CAMP COUNTERPILOT
Applications now closed
Apply now for this crash course on ideation, devising, prototyping and collaboration suitable for any rebellious artist or creative thinker. Hosted with Metro Arts this April.
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.
We seek to provoke refreshed perceptions through acts of trouble, mischief and low-key chaos. 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, and creative producer 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
Mischief RECALLED…
SCAREDY HOUSE
A reverse haunted house for young people to confront the darkness within. A bold new work for audiences aged 7-10, and their families. You’ve never heard a ghost story quite like this one…
truthmachine
A working polygraph test for a room full of strangers to explore truth in a post-truth world. Our multi-award winning theatrical social experiment has been touring since 2019.
ADRIFT
Strangers in the dark, isolated by headphones, following instructions to find each other. The award winning performance set in an infinite ocean…