Novelty

Experiential Manifesto

Imagine your life as how it is now. This is what you will be facing for the rest of your life. If you are a 

fashion designer, all that surounds you will always be clothing, magazines, everything trying to keep up with the world today. If you are a house wife, all you do is take care of your children and your husband. Is there more to life? What if you want to experience something new just for a second? What if you do not want to escape this life, but may be depart it for a minute? Nobody wants to live with the same old routine happening around them all the time because isn’t it the excitement and anticipation what keeps people going? Don’t you ever feel like you want to be role playing in somebody else’s life? Rather than reenacting different scenes of your life and making the slighest changes you can, wouldn’t it be better to live something novel for a change?

Novelty is what everyone seeks for nowadays. People seek to experience something new, something different, that will engage them to do it again. To achieve that, they must be exposed to something unfamiliar. They should experience something innovative, may be even odd that makes them feel like they are transported into a new world. This new world has underlying surprises for them, which are unexpected. Anything can happen at any second. What attracts you is the feeling of anticipation that keeps emerging while you wait for something to play a role for you. The important thing is the experiences you get comes from real life people interacting with you to create a new life for you. You will experience it at best when you are blind folded and not distracted by the visions around you. You are more focused with the performances that evolves around you like you are a blind person going through profound experiences that leads you to escape your life for a while before you return to it. You will learn the possibility of living another man’s life to make your realize and re judge your own life. Once the experience is done, you may come back anytime to try out another life at random if your fate chooses it. You will be completely overwhelmed with the other possibility of living a totally different life than how yours is. When you go back to your real life, you might decide to change it completely or you might be satisfied with what you have. But isn’t it better to try something novel that makes you realize something rather than going on with the same lifestyle while still wondering?

Novelty is the experience communicated to the visitors through different means.

Visitors should experience something new, maybe even odd that makes them want to return to this world because of the underlying surprise or unexpected events

 that can occur at any moment.

The feeling of anticipation is what attracts them to this experience.

Most importantly, all these experiences are driven through real people performing and role playing around you who are the spotlight.

The act of storytelling will build the connection between the visitor with the actors to create an even more profound experience.

The experiences created keeps building up through time in a non- sequential pattern to surprise the visitors.

The visitor will enter an empty, dark, rectangular space where they will see unfamiliar actors with mask guiding them to choose their character through a deck of cards.

They will choose what kind of life they would live for five minutes in this new world without them knowing what the character in the card they would be experiencing.

They do not get to see the card and they do not choose the events that will happen to them.

They need to let the projection, sound and performance lead them to the anticipation of living an unexpected novel life.

 The visitors are blind folded and the actors will interact with them as if they are all role playing together with a few actors they do not see.

The novelty in this is that the next time the same visitor comes into this new world, they can randomly choose another novel experience.

The visitor will live the life scene they are never familiar with before.

They will experience something differently that will engage them to come again.

The new world will not be responsible for any damages the visitor experience.