In its fourth year, Force and Motion’s August 2023 season engages artists in the task of collectivity. How do the relationships we build in turn build the work we engage in? This year around and within SCAFFOLD, three Chicago-based performance collectives in different iterations of collaboration populate the public lawn with work that examines our relationship to one another and the possibilities that can be tapped into through those relationships.

//sense is an experimental time-based artist collective that features new media, technologies, performance, video, sound, installation, and beyond. It focuses on experimental theater production through large-scale collaborations. As a safe space for experimental expressions, this troupe develops synergy through unleashing concealed potentials that would otherwise be unachievable in solo practice. By fostering a common ground to practice and cultivate collectivism, individual expertises transcend into a collective experience.

Intermarrying new media, happenings, and performance, we expand audiences' and performers’ perceptions, experience, and consciousness through immersive, improvisatory, interactive, devised, participatory, and site-specific theatrical models. Our team fluidity ensures a unique experience across different productions. Besides revolutionizing the art-making process, we encourage audiences to elevate their role as spectators into active participants, hence enabling the art-making process for a wider population. By activating the entire venue space and deskilling in arts, we invite artistic inclusivity to empower the community through actions.