The Drifting Room

Buildings allow us to see the world from a fixed position, but what happens when we are no longer tied to one place? Human powered and always on the move, The Drifting Room views the city as a vast stage with a cast of thousands. Join an intimate group of travellers as they transform the environment, one description at a time, into a world not yet seen. The Drifting Room is a fiction machine, larger on the inside than it is on the outside, lingering in the cracks between fiction and reality.

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Stephen Bain is a Aotearoa performance maker, he has directed and designed many original plays and performances since the early 1990s. Recently he has been creating public-space performances including audio interventions, theatrical shows and interactive installations, presented in Western European countries and throughout New Zealand. He lives in Tāmaki Makaurau: Auckland where he is working on community projects and public space performances, he holds a PhD from the University of Tasmania based on his research into public space as a site for tactical fiction to unsettle the political dynamics of space.

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Co-Drifter Jen McArthur is a maker and performer of physical theatre, specializing in character comedy and movement. Jen’s theatre, corporate and hospital clown characters have spanned 25 years and have visited arts and street festivals, functions, and local communities nationally and internationally. Trained at Victoria University Te Herenga Waka, VCA Melbourne and Circomedia, Bristol, she has worked with many companies including Binge Culture, Kallo Collective, Capital E National Theatre for Children, and is a devoted Winning Productions co-worker.