2021 — Patrick Blenkarn

2021 (2023-2026)

Created by Cole Lewis, Patrick Blenkarn, Sam Ferguson

Then as regards the actual connection between spirit & body I consider that the body by reason of being a living body can “attract” & hold on to a “spirit” whilst the body is alive & awake the two are firmly connected & when the body is asleep I cannot guess what happens but when the body dies the “mechanism” of the body, holding the spirit is gone & the spirit finds a new body sooner or later perhaps immediately.

As regards the question of why we have bodies at all; why we do not or cannot live free as spirits & communicate as such, we probably could do so but there would be nothing whatsoever to do. The body provides something for the spirit to look after & use. — Alan Turing

2021 is a live narrated video game designed for a participatory performance, accompanied by live music.

2021 is a collaborative storytelling event between performers, audience members, and AI.

2021 is an exploration of the significance of human data and the challenges of preserving dignity in death for those we fundamentally disagree with.

Intimate, emotional, and cerebral, 2021 is a show about the messiness of being alive in an increasingly technological world, with its story unfolding through a video game played on stage by one audience member as a stand-in for Cole's unhoused Veteran father, Brian. In playing the game, the player reenacts Brian's final weeks in a New Jersey hospital, with Cole (his real daughter) live narrating the journey, accompanied by a live musician.

The show will premiere in New York in January 2026.

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Phase Two — MITU 580, Brooklyn, August 2024