Myths contain potent symbolic resonance that allow us to project our life experiences and desires upon the characters contained within archetypal narrative structures. In our show "Wondermare", we have chosen the narrative template of "Alice in Wonderland" precisely because it contains potent narratives about the rites of passage into adulthood. The story consistently resists a pat and easily defined linear narrative structure and at the same time confronts the confusing and often nonsensical rituals that we must travel through in order to obtain a "civilized" or "adult" persona in the world "behind" or in "front" of our looking glass. It is our belief that the much of the behavioral conditioning and psychological tapes programmed in our subconscious are the unhealthy byproducts of a world out of balance. It is a "house of cards," on the brink of catastrophe; the truth of which is obscured from us by our own myopic pursuits and illusions. By immersing the audience in an 8 screen video landscape it compels us to address the parts of ourselves that are hidden, repressed and denied. Wondermare creates the opportunity for a psychological "rebooting," a "do over," whereas through interactivity, the participant will have another "chance" at addressing their own rights of cultural passage that they may or may not have gotten right the first time around.
