LOCUST LATE @ The DiLL: Hacking Reality: Exploring Tech Entanglements Through Play by Fereshteh Toosi. Performance by Roxana Barba.
Join Locust Projects for the final Locust Late @ The DiLL of the 2025–26 season! For our season finale, we are looking at how our online and offline lives intertwine, kicking off with a hands-on workshop using live-action role-play (LARP) to thoughtfully probe our relationship with digital systems by artist educator Fereshteh Toosi. This is followed by a participatory performance activated by a secret Discord chat by artist Roxana Barba. Artists of all skill levels are encouraged to #BYOL (Bring Your Own Laptop) and follow along.
7pm Workshop: Fereshteh Toosi, Hacking Reality: exploring tech entanglements through play
Reflecting on this past season of digital innovation, how do invisible systems continue to shape our behavior and values? This workshop by artist educator Fereshteh Toosi uses live-action role-play (LARP) as a way to probe our relationship with digital systems without needing to write code or build machines. Through short, improvisational games, participants step into speculative realities shaped by surveillance, data clouds, and offline zones. The workshop ends with a discussion about what these playful scenarios reveal about our lived experiences.
9pm Performance: Roxana Barba, secret group chat (beta test)
For the final performance of the season, movement artist Roxana Barba invites the audience into a secret Discord chat room projected live in the DiLL. Thinking about how we translate our offline experiences online and back, whatever the crowd types becomes a score for improvised movement, with visuals and sound layered in real time. In turn, this playful experiment in artist-audience participation results in a generative feedback loop of endless permutating performances.
This event is free and open to the public, and presented as part of the Knight Digital Innovation Initiative at Locust Projects. Complimentary refreshments are available for guests aged 21 and older courtesy of our 2025–26 sponsors The Tank Brewing Co. and Topo Chico.