Dublin Fringe Festival Announces The Digital Hub as Official Digital Partner

Building on the success of their partnership in 2020 and 2021, The Digital Hub will continue to support Dublin Fringe Festival’s work presenting performances at the intersection of art and technology.

As Official Digital Partner, The Digital Hub, is pleased to support the presentation of five shows and the introduction of the Digital Discovery Exchange, a new international partnership with Melbourne Fringe Festival.

Out of the Ordinary / As An nGnách
Irish National Opera
Experience the world’s first virtual reality opera. In this radical new approach to the form, we strive to avoid repeating the mistakes of the past.  Encounter this VR opera developed with people across Ireland. Become Nalva as she and her people flee a land that has been ravaged by their short-sighted actions followed by Daol, the restless, unleashed spirit. Put on your headset and journey through dangerous waters and new frontiers to find sanctuary.

Scopaesthesia
remi freer
19 – 24 September, online & Smock Alley Theatre

Two interlocked digital experiences, for audiences in Dublin and Melbourne. Scopaesthesia is the creeping feeling of something’s eyes staring in the back of your head. Something unknown watching. Perceiving us with uncertain goals and unintelligible intentions.  Occurring simultaneously in cities across the world, this cross-disciplinary work inhabits and contemplates our public space through the eyes of the invisible systems around us.

Test 1 (Dance Double Bill)
Rosie Stebbing & Ornella Dufay–Miralles
21 – 24 September, Smock Alley

Instagram lives, augmented reality, the metaverse: What are we leaving behind as we move ever further into the virtual realm, and how do we cope as our physical and digital selves grow more distant from one another? Through hypnotic, powerful movement, two dancers grapple with these questions, confronting an uncomfortable reality. This performance is a physically poetic exploration of the complicated relationships we all have with our avatars.

THIRST TRAP
Ray Young
10 – 25 September, Your Place

Part-narrative and part-meditation, this is a 30-minute sound piece for audiences to listen to at home in the bath along with an experience pack of resources to change their physical environment, connecting closely with their personal atmosphere and relationship with their bodies.
Delving in to possible outcomes of rising temperatures and the correlation between social and climate justice, this performance experience continues Young’s investigation into water as a key character in our collective conversations on climate justice.

Whodunnit? The Great Art Robbery!
Super Paua
10 & 11 September, Your Place

SACRÉ BLEU! DIA ÁR SÁBHÁIL! How could it be? A self-portrait of our national treasure- Ireland's most notorious pigeon - STOLEN.  You! Yes... all twelve of you are suspects. Fán anseo. You're going NOWHERE until we figure out... whodunnit?

In this online multilingual mystery game, play a character, protect your secrets, and use your detective skills to catch the thief. For young people aged 8-12 years.

Without Sin
Unqualified Design Studio
10 – 15 September, Dublin Castle – Outside The Printworks

A contemporary confessional for the modern sinner, this immersive one-to-one experience cultivates a space for intimate conversation. The performance brings two participants into a pair of bespoke-crafted timber booths, designed to be fully immersive, the booths use state-of-the-art technology to create an audio-visual feedback loop in which the interior lighting responds to participants' voices. Linked via headphones, participants are guided into conversation with each other, using a half-remembered script to create their story together.

Dublin Fringe Festival 2022 runs 10 – 25 September. More information and booking details can be found at fringefest.com/festival/whats-on.