A space, procedure and participation in Corporate Unconscious Diego Muhr, 2026
Essay
The participants are composed in it too, and by each other, spaced out so that every person becomes part of what the next one walks into. Composed theatre has used both space and audience often and treated them as material rarely.
I wrote about the piece in 2024, while I was still inside it. This is a second reading, two years later. It ends somewhere I did not expect, with the work handling the people inside it much as the company in its story handles people, and with a question I would rather put to other people than pretend I have settled: whether there is anywhere to stand outside a system you are a component of.
Space as Score:
Corporate Unconscious and the Videowalk formatDiego Muhr, 2024
Master’s thesis
participation. This thesis describes the creative process of the videowalk performance Corporate Unconscious, proposing the notion of utilizing space itself as a score for multimedia performance. It examines how space can guide narrative, form, and audience engagement, challenging traditional notions of spectatorship and participation.
Furthermore, it explores the videowalk's potential to build and navigate constructed realities, using mockumentary techniques and connecting to the research of artists like Pierre Huyghe. This study underscores the critical role of building and then documenting realities, proposing that such approaches enrich the audience's experiential journey, inviting them into a reflective dialogue on the nature of truth, fiction, and perception.