ARCADE @ Gloucester Guildhall
Mar
27
to Apr 7

ARCADE @ Gloucester Guildhall

“None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.”
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE

ARCADE is the latest immersive audio experience from DARKFIELD, but this isn’t an ordinary arcade and these are not ordinary arcade machines. Every machine offers you the chance to enter the world of the game and choose your own unique journey. As you guide your avatar through a world ravaged by endless war, there are many routes you can take and there are many different outcomes.

Using the nostalgic 8-bit aesthetic of 1980’s video games, ARCADE’s interactive narrative explores the evolving relationship between players and avatars. This choose-your-own-path experience will fully immerse players in alternate environments in a completely dark shipping container, using 360 degree binaural sound and sensory effects. Players will be asked to address deep existential questions about free will and consciousness in a world where some may win and some may lose…

Duration
30 mins

Age Suitability
16+

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DARKFIELD @ Canberra Theatre Centre 2024
Mar
28
to Apr 14

DARKFIELD @ Canberra Theatre Centre 2024

  • Canberra Theatre Centre (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

A MULTI-SENSORY SONIC THEME PARK

Behind the doors of each shipping container, a strange world unfolds. Four intense and deeply immersive experiences in pitch darkness are waiting for you. Step inside, put on the headphones and soon the lights will go out.

‘An experience that’s properly exhilarating. It’s a perfectly programmed high-art theme park ride, a reminder of one’s closeness at all times to death that spits you out into the sunlight feeling palpably, certainly, alive.’ Ben Kulvichit, Exeunt Magazine [On Flight]

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ARCADE @ Nottingham Lakeside
Mar
12
to Mar 24

ARCADE @ Nottingham Lakeside

  • Nottingham Lakeside Arts (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

“None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.”
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE

ARCADE is the latest immersive audio experience from DARKFIELD, but this isn’t an ordinary arcade and these are not ordinary arcade machines. Every machine offers you the chance to enter the world of the game and choose your own unique journey. As you guide your avatar through a world ravaged by endless war, there are many routes you can take and there are many different outcomes.

Using the nostalgic 8-bit aesthetic of 1980’s video games, ARCADE’s interactive narrative explores the evolving relationship between players and avatars. This choose-your-own-path experience will fully immerse players in alternate environments in a completely dark shipping container, using 360 degree binaural sound and sensory effects. Players will be asked to address deep existential questions about free will and consciousness in a world where some may win and some may lose…

Duration
30 mins

Age Suitability
16+

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ETERNAL @ Belfast XR Festival 2024
Feb
28
to Feb 29

ETERNAL @ Belfast XR Festival 2024

“I want you to believe...to believe in things that you cannot.” - Bram Stoker

ETERNAL is a 20 minute immersive audio experience for one person, alone in their bed. It explores the quandary of eternal life and wonders what price you would settle for to achieve it. ETERNAL was commissioned by the 2020 Bram Stoker Festival, Dublin, and had its first physical installation in 2022 at Centre Phi, Montreal. It has since featured as part of Luxembourgh City Film Festival 2023.

Duration
20 mins

Age Suitability
14+

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DARKFIELD @ Adelaide Fringe 2024
Feb
15
to Mar 17

DARKFIELD @ Adelaide Fringe 2024

A MULTI-SENSORY SONIC THEME PARK

Behind the doors of each shipping container, a strange world unfolds. Four intense and deeply immersive experiences in pitch darkness are waiting for you. Step inside, put on the headphones and soon the lights will go out.

‘An experience that’s properly exhilarating. It’s a perfectly programmed high-art theme park ride, a reminder of one’s closeness at all times to death that spits you out into the sunlight feeling palpably, certainly, alive.’ Ben Kulvichit, Exeunt Magazine [On Flight]

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DARKFIELD Radio - END OF SEASON
Jan
2
to Feb 4

DARKFIELD Radio - END OF SEASON

DARKFIELD RADIO is an app delivering 360 degree immersive audio experiences to audiences at home. A brand new innovative form of entertainment directly responding to the new age we are living in, DARKFIELD RADIO immerses audiences in strange and curious worlds, bringing new meaning to the familiar spaces we inhabit.

Multiple shows are available via the DARKFIELD Radio phone app.

Taking part is simple: buy your tickets online, download the app, log in and you show will appear for your chosen date and time.

At the designated time you put on your headphones and your home becomes the setting for another world, blurring the lines between real and imagined.

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DARKFIELD @ Sydney Season 23/24
Nov
23
to Jan 21

DARKFIELD @ Sydney Season 23/24

A MULTI-SENSORY SONIC THEME PARK

Behind the doors of each shipping container, a strange world unfolds. Four intense and deeply immersive experiences in pitch darkness are waiting for you. Step inside, put on the headphones and soon the lights will go out.

‘An experience that’s properly exhilarating. It’s a perfectly programmed high-art theme park ride, a reminder of one’s closeness at all times to death that spits you out into the sunlight feeling palpably, certainly, alive.’ Ben Kulvichit, Exeunt Magazine [On Flight]

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SÉANCE @ Aberystwyth Arts Centre
Nov
8
to Nov 19

SÉANCE @ Aberystwyth Arts Centre

We will not prey upon the paranoid, the bereaved, the credulous, the wide-eyed, the weak or the inbred, but in return we ask you proceed with an open-mind.

Séance is an entertainment only and we cannot hold the medium responsible for the outcome.

SÉANCE, the first DARKFIELD shipping container experience, transforms the interior of a 24ft container into a Victorian séance room. Over 20 minutes it explores the psychology of a group of people and asks that they believe, not only in what seems to be happening inside the container but also in what might be conjured up into the room with them. 

Time Slots
See website for Time Slots

Duration
20 mins

Age Suitability
14+

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SÉANCE @ Taliesin Arts Centre, Swansea
Oct
24
to Nov 5

SÉANCE @ Taliesin Arts Centre, Swansea

We will not prey upon the paranoid, the bereaved, the credulous, the wide-eyed, the weak or the inbred, but in return we ask you proceed with an open-mind.

Séance is an entertainment only and we cannot hold the medium responsible for the outcome.

SÉANCE, the first DARKFIELD shipping container experience, transforms the interior of a 24ft container into a Victorian séance room. Over 20 minutes it explores the psychology of a group of people and asks that they believe, not only in what seems to be happening inside the container but also in what might be conjured up into the room with them. 

Time Slots
See website for Time Slots

Duration
20 mins

Age Suitability
14+

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SÉANCE @ Mexico City
Oct
6
to Nov 12

SÉANCE @ Mexico City

We will not prey upon the paranoid, the bereaved, the credulous, the wide-eyed, the weak or the inbred, but in return we ask you proceed with an open-mind.

Séance is an entertainment only and we cannot hold the medium responsible for the outcome.

SÉANCE transforms the interior of a 24ft container into a Victorian séance room. Over 20 minutes it explores the psychology of a group of people and asks that they believe, not only in what seems to be happening inside the container but also in what might be conjured up into the room with them. 

Time Slots
See website for Time Slots

Duration
20 mins

Age Suitability
14+

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DARKFIELD Radio - TESTING MODE
Sep
27
to Nov 5

DARKFIELD Radio - TESTING MODE

DARKFIELD RADIO is an app delivering 360 degree immersive audio experiences to audiences at home. A brand new innovative form of entertainment directly responding to the new age we are living in, DARKFIELD RADIO immerses audiences in strange and curious worlds, bringing new meaning to the familiar spaces we inhabit.

Multiple shows are available via the DARKFIELD Radio phone app.

Taking part is simple: buy your tickets online, download the app, log in and you show will appear for your chosen date and time.

At the designated time you put on your headphones and your home becomes the setting for another world, blurring the lines between real and imagined.

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Flight @ Home of the Arts (HOTA), Queensland Australia
Sep
7
to Oct 1

Flight @ Home of the Arts (HOTA), Queensland Australia

We’re not responsible for your final destination.

FLIGHT takes place in absolute darkness inside a 40ft shipping container. Its interior exactly resembles an Airbus 320 economy cabin and over 30 minutes explores the Many-Worlds Interpretation of quantum mechanics, taking audience members through two worlds, two realities and two possible outcomes to their journey. There are many worlds in which this plane lands safely.

Duration
30 mins

Age Suitability
14+

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ETERNAL @ Wales Millennium Centre
Aug
21
to Sep 3

ETERNAL @ Wales Millennium Centre

“I want you to believe...to believe in things that you cannot.” - Bram Stoker

ETERNAL is a 20 minute immersive audio experience for one person, alone in their bed. It explores the quandary of eternal life and wonders what price you would settle for to achieve it. ETERNAL was commissioned by the 2020 Bram Stoker Festival, Dublin, and had its first physical installation in 2022 at Centre Phi, Montreal. It has since featured as part of Luxembourgh City Film Festival 2023.

Opening
Mon – Sat 11am – 6.30pm (last entry 6pm)
Sun 11am – 4.30pm (last entry 4pm)

No need to book.

Duration
20 mins

Age Suitability
14+

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SÉANCE @ Pachuca, Mexico
Aug
16
to Sep 16

SÉANCE @ Pachuca, Mexico

We will not prey upon the paranoid, the bereaved, the credulous, the wide-eyed, the weak or the inbred, but in return we ask you proceed with an open-mind.

Séance is an entertainment only and we cannot hold the medium responsible for the outcome.

SÉANCE transforms the interior of a 24ft container into a Victorian séance room. Over 20 minutes it explores the psychology of a group of people and asks that they believe, not only in what seems to be happening inside the container but also in what might be conjured up into the room with them. 

Time Slots
See website for Time Slots

Duration
20 mins

Age Suitability
14+

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SEANCE & EULOGY @ Pleasance, Edinburgh Fringe 23
Aug
2
to Aug 28

SEANCE & EULOGY @ Pleasance, Edinburgh Fringe 23

SÉANCE, the first DARKFIELD shipping-container experience, transforms the interior of a 24ft container into a Victorian séance room.
Over 20 minutes it explores the psychology of a group of people, and asks that they believe, not only in what seems to be happening inside the container but also in what might be conjured up into the room with them.


EULOGY is a surreal, otherworldly journey through a dreamlike, labyrinthine hotel that exists entirely in your mind. Performed in complete darkness over 35 minutes, this intense and exhilarating ride uses binaural sound and speech recognition technology to deceive the senses and transport audience members through rooms, down corridors and into the bowels of this strange and not altogether comfortable hotel. How your dream unfolds is, in part, up to you…

SEANCE Duration
20 mins

EULOGY Duration
35 mins

Age Suitability
14+

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COMA @ Summerhall, Edinburgh Fringe 23
Aug
2
to Aug 27

COMA @ Summerhall, Edinburgh Fringe 23

Imagine the moment of waking up is actually the moment when your dream begins. In light of this new and strange reality, how can we save you from the unspeakable horrors which lurk in the dark recesses of your mind? The only cure we offer is a placebo and a promise. Please remember when you leave to take your body with you.

DARKFIELD, creators of Séance (2017) and Flight (2018), return to Summerhall with their new show, which once again takes place in a completely dark shipping container.

Time Slots
Every 45mins from 11am.
See ticket link for further details.

Duration
30 mins

Venue
Summerhall

Age Suitability
14+

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EULOGY @ Latitude Festival 23
Jul
20
to Jul 23

EULOGY @ Latitude Festival 23

Welcome to DARKFIELD. We hope you enjoy your stay. At check-in we will issue you a key card and allocate you a chaperone to guide you to the other side of the dream. Follow the right path and don’t volunteer to become the subject of the eulogy every guest is preparing to deliver.

EULOGY is a surreal, otherworldly journey through a dreamlike, labyrinthine hotel that exists entirely in your mind. How you arrived is a mystery and why you’re there remains unclear. Just make sure you read the pamphlet.

Performed in complete darkness over 35 minutes, this intense and exhilarating ride uses binaural sound and speech recognition technology to deceive the senses and transport audience members through rooms, down corridors and into the bowels of this strange and not altogether comfortable hotel. How your dream unfolds is, in part, up to you.

Duration
35 mins

Age Suitability
14+

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Flight @ Didsbury Arts Festival 23
Jun
24
to Jul 2

Flight @ Didsbury Arts Festival 23

We’re not responsible for your final destination.

FLIGHT takes place in absolute darkness inside a 40ft shipping container. Its interior exactly resembles an Airbus 320 economy cabin and over 30 minutes explores the Many-Worlds Interpretation of quantum mechanics, taking audience members through two worlds, two realities and two possible outcomes to their journey. There are many worlds in which this plane lands safely.

Duration
30 mins

Age Suitability
14+

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DARKFIELD @ Sydney Season 23
Apr
13
to Jul 2

DARKFIELD @ Sydney Season 23

A MULTI-SENSORY SONIC THEME PARK

Behind the doors of each shipping container, a strange world unfolds. Four intense and deeply immersive experiences in pitch darkness are waiting for you. Step inside, put on the headphones and soon the lights will go out.

‘An experience that’s properly exhilarating. It’s a perfectly programmed high-art theme park ride, a reminder of one’s closeness at all times to death that spits you out into the sunlight feeling palpably, certainly, alive.’ Ben Kulvichit, Exeunt Magazine [On Flight]

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Séance @ Lakeside Arts, Nottingham
Mar
21
to Apr 2

Séance @ Lakeside Arts, Nottingham

We will not prey upon the paranoid, the bereaved, the credulous, the wide-eyed, the weak or the inbred, but in return we ask you proceed with an open-mind.

Séance is an entertainment only and we cannot hold the medium responsible for the outcome.

SÉANCE, the first DARKFIELD shipping container experience, transforms the interior of a 24ft container into a Victorian séance room. Over 20 minutes it explores the psychology of a group of people and asks that they believe, not only in what seems to be happening inside the container but also in what might be conjured up into the room with them. 

Time Slots
See website for Time Slots

Duration
20 mins

Age Suitability
14+

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EULOGY @ Norwich Theatre
Mar
15
to Mar 26

EULOGY @ Norwich Theatre

Welcome to DARKFIELD. We hope you enjoy your stay.

At check-in we will issue you a key card and allocate you a chaperone to guide you to the other side of the dream. Follow the right path and don’t volunteer to become the subject of the eulogy every guest is preparing to deliver.

EULOGY is a surreal, otherworldly journey through a dreamlike, labyrinthine hotel that exists entirely in your mind. How you arrived is a mystery and why you’re there remains unclear. Just make sure you read the pamphlet.

Performed in complete darkness over 35 minutes, this intense and exhilarating ride uses binaural sound and speech recognition technology to deceive the senses and transport audience members through rooms, down corridors and into the bowels of this strange and not altogether comfortable hotel. How your dream unfolds is, in part, up to you.

Time Slots
See website for Time Slots

Duration
35 mins

Age Suitability
14+

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ETERNAL @ Luxembourg City Film Festival
Mar
1
to Mar 19

ETERNAL @ Luxembourg City Film Festival

  • Luxembourg City Film Festival (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

“I want you to believe...to believe in things that you cannot.” - Bram Stoker

ETERNAL is a 20 minute immersive audio experience for one person, alone in their bed. It explores the quandary of eternal life and wonders what price you would settle for to achieve it. ETERNAL was commissioned by the 2020 Bram Stoker Festival, Dublin, and had its first physical installation in 2022 at Centre Phi, Montreal. It has since featured as part of Luxembourgh City Film Festival 2023.

Duration
20 mins

Age Suitability
14+

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DARKFIELD @ Adelaide Summer Season
Feb
17
to Mar 19

DARKFIELD @ Adelaide Summer Season

A MULTI-SENSORY SONIC THEME PARK

Behind the doors of each shipping container, a strange world unfolds. Four intense and deeply immersive experiences in pitch darkness are waiting for you. Step inside, put on the headphones and soon the lights will go out.

‘An experience that’s properly exhilarating. It’s a perfectly programmed high-art theme park ride, a reminder of one’s closeness at all times to death that spits you out into the sunlight feeling palpably, certainly, alive.’ Ben Kulvichit, Exeunt Magazine [On Flight]

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INTRAVENE (Digital) @ Reframe Film Festival, Peterborough Canada
Jan
26
to Feb 3

INTRAVENE (Digital) @ Reframe Film Festival, Peterborough Canada

INTRAVENE is an immersive audio experience using binaural 360 degree sound to plunge listeners into the heart of the overdose crisis in Vancouver. It is a groundbreaking partnership of immersive and documentary experts and drug user activists: DARKFIELD, Crackdown and Brenda Longfellow.

Episode One: BENZODOPE is a fully immersive episode. It places the audience in the centre of Vancouver’s Overdose Prevention Site (OPS) and features voices from the drug user community via interviews by Crackdown.

Opioid overdoses were bad enough. But now Vancouver’s drug supply - already contaminated with fentanyl-is laced with benzodiazepines. Peer workers like Trey Helten, a former drug user and manager of an Overdose Prevention Site (OPS), loves his chosen community and has saved hundreds of lives with naloxone. But now benzos are throwing up new kinds of challenges.

Over 20 minutes, BENZODOPE immerses listeners in the intense audio environment of the OPS where a user has inadvertently injected a hit contaminated with benzodope.

Duration
25 mins

Age Suitability
15+

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DARKFIELD @ Melbourne Summer Season
Dec
14
to Feb 5

DARKFIELD @ Melbourne Summer Season

A MULTI-SENSORY SONIC THEME PARK

Behind the doors of each shipping container, a strange world unfolds. Four intense and deeply immersive experiences in pitch darkness are waiting for you. Step inside, put on the headphones and soon the lights will go out.

‘An experience that’s properly exhilarating. It’s a perfectly programmed high-art theme park ride, a reminder of one’s closeness at all times to death that spits you out into the sunlight feeling palpably, certainly, alive.’ Ben Kulvichit, Exeunt Magazine [On Flight]

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Séance @ Merida, Mexico
Dec
1
to Jan 22

Séance @ Merida, Mexico

We will not prey upon the paranoid, the bereaved, the credulous, the wide-eyed, the weak or the inbred, but in return we ask you proceed with an open-mind.

Séance is an entertainment only and we cannot hold the medium responsible for the outcome.

SÉANCE, the first DARKFIELD shipping container experience, transforms the interior of a 24ft container into a Victorian séance room. Over 20 minutes it explores the psychology of a group of people and asks that they believe, not only in what seems to be happening inside the container but also in what might be conjured up into the room with them. 

Time Slots
See website for Time Slots

Duration
20 mins

Age Suitability
14+

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FLIGHT @ Sunset Terminal, Taiwan
Nov
11
to Oct 15

FLIGHT @ Sunset Terminal, Taiwan

We’re not responsible for your final destination.

FLIGHT takes place in absolute darkness inside a 40ft shipping container. Its interior exactly resembles an Airbus 320 economy cabin and over 30 minutes explores the Many-Worlds Interpretation of quantum mechanics, taking audience members through two worlds, two realities and two possible outcomes to their journey. There are many worlds in which this plane lands safely.

Duration
30 mins

Age Suitability
14+

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DARKFIELD Radio
Nov
1
to Nov 26

DARKFIELD Radio

DARKFIELD RADIO is an app delivering 360 degree immersive audio experiences to audiences at home. A brand new innovative form of entertainment directly responding to the new age we are living in, DARKFIELD RADIO immerses audiences in strange and curious worlds, bringing new meaning to the familiar spaces we inhabit.

Multiple shows are available via the DARKFIELD Radio phone app.

Taking part is simple: buy your tickets online, download the free app, log in and you show will appear for your chosen date and time.

At the designated time you put on your headphones and your home becomes the setting for another world, blurring the lines between real and imagined.

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Flight @ LLais 22, Wales Millennium Centre
Oct
27
to Nov 6

Flight @ LLais 22, Wales Millennium Centre

  • Wales Millennium Centre (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

We’re not responsible for your final destination.

FLIGHT takes place in absolute darkness inside a 40ft shipping container. Its interior exactly resembles an Airbus 320 economy cabin and over 30 minutes explores the Many-Worlds Interpretation of quantum mechanics, taking audience members through two worlds, two realities and two possible outcomes to their journey. There are many worlds in which this plane lands safely.

Duration
30 mins

Age Suitability
14+

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