HOME X

In HOME X, we are using technology as a form of artistic expression to create a new way of experiencing and telling stories. The concept was born out of a desire to create a space where audiences could connect with each other and with the performers, regardless of their physical distance. The remote audience actively participates in the game, while the live audience witnesses these different realities intersecting in various ways. We aim to create a powerful and engaging experience that brings people together in a meaningful way.

In this ever-changing world, our differences can be a source of animosity and separation or a chance for us to grow and create something to be cherished, remembered, and respected. Through learning and understanding ourselves, each other, and the world around us, HOME X aims to inspire us to explore our roots, our sense of home and their relationship with our existence.

An-Ting 安婷, Ian Gallagher and Donald Shek (co-creators of HOME X)

EVERY DOLLAR IS A SOLDIER/WITH MONEY YOU’RE A DRAGON

Mixing gaming and 3D technology, this experimental 45 minute production mixes original music, virtual performances and a new script exploring the migrant experience, from the poorest of Chinese sailors who jumped ship in the East End, to the richest of men like William Waldorf Astor.

Every dollar is a soldier/with money you’re a dragon is set ‘after hours’ in the gallery, twenty audience members, visible to each other as their chosen avatars gather in the lobby and start by following the glowing orb that guides us through the virtual galleries. The production has won Arts Council England’s Digital Cultural Award – Storytelling in 2022.

Director & Composer/ An-Ting; Creative Technologist/ Ian Gallagher; Designer/ Christine 挺歡 Urquhart; Writer/ Daniel York Loh; Co-produced by Kakilang & Two Temple Place

AUGMENTED CHINATOWN 2.0

The Stage ‘surprising and engaging immersive journey’;
Lyn Gardner ‘infinitely touching’.

A live, immersive audio tour through Chinatown with augmented reality visuals and miniature dramas behind the facades.

London’s Chinatown, and the area it sits in, has been the stage for a multitude of stories over its constantly evolving history. Augmented Chinatown 2.0 brings some of those stories to life in an immersive augmented reality experience which mixes striking visuals, miniature audio dramas, atmospheric music and a guided tour through the area’s past and present and how it became the centre of the Chinese community in London.

BATS AND BEATS

LAO CAN IMPRESSION

CONCERT THEATRE

Concert Theatre began life as a project for my MMus course at the Royal Academy of Music (RAM). I created a performance by combining a play by Sarah Kane – 4.48 Psychosis – with music for piano by Webern and Gibbons, focussing in particular on themes of sanity and insanity. As a pianist, I performed side-by-side with actors on the same stage. Since the music and the play were not directly choreographed or composed for each other, each provided a distinct and independent language of its own and I felt that the collisions between these two languages could inspire the audiences to experience fresh perspectives on both works.

I then moved on to the PhD programme at the RAM, during the PhD study, I have produced two full productions Sonata Movements and Kiss of the Earth. I am currently working on immersive projects, The Tenant, based on Anne Brontë’s ‘Tenant of Wildfell Hall’ and Scriabin’s 24 Preludes, Mozart’s sonata for piano and violin K. 378, and Brahms’ Rhapsody Op. 79 and Die Schöne Müllerin based on Schubert’s song cycle and its historical scenes.