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SIREN

siren is festival: cacophonous celebration of intra and extraludic connectivity. inspired by interactions in arcades and webforums, toyama wanted to push players to reach out for help by making something so unwieldy as to be next to impossible to solve in isolation. initially an appeal to flesh and blood, twenty years later there's only bones: pcsx2 windows spliced with crusty videos, html guides, and half remembered details; ARG digitalism and folklore colliding across the same frequencies as the material itself

dozens of actors share the same stage from different perspectives at different points on the same chronological sprawl, all of them working toward building a perfect present against all imperfect pasts and futures. all of them playing their part within the margins of archives and spreadsheets to ensure the performance makes it all the way to its intended conclusion. thru repetition and painstaking optimization, communion and unlikely causality, and hijacked bodies with borrowed eyes and twice borrowed faces. to the center of the nest where all threads, all actions, and all times meet