The DAWN of Compliance

Date: JAN 25 - Now | Status: In development | Role: Creative Director

Target experience for the audience
DAWN is an immersive installation premiering May 3, 2025. It’s part sci-fi satire, part bureaucratic fever dream, and part metaphysical onboarding experience. Set inside a mysterious corporate entity devoted to “optimization, ascension, and compliance,” the installation invites participants to enter a surreal world of absurd paperwork, glowing terminals, compliance testing, and cryptic office rituals.

Approach
The project draws from themes of control, labor, spiritual bypassing, and late-capitalist absurdity. It blends elements of immersive theater, interactive design, and sculpture to build a strange and playful system that’s always watching, never fully explained, and just maybe trying to help you transcend—on a probationary basis, of course.

Presented as part of Somerville Open Studios 2025.