adnan agha
interdisciplinary designer & artist

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left out
as an artist in residence with culturehub––an experimental theatre group in new york––i adapted a play called “left out” from their canon to a new media installation. the play is only a few short pages but seethes with a biting critique of humanity’s exploitation of nature.


in it, a woman stands at center stage, motionless. a man enters from the wings and approaches. after this introduction, she reveals the existential conundrum they face: they’ve “run out of left.” the man tries to return to where he came from and... he can’t. every motion is met with a metaphysical wall of force, keeping him in place. and thus, their fates are cast. the woman remains in place as the man stomps forward, promising to somehow restore order, make things right!







you and me
in my mixed reality installation, the vr labyrinth is perfectly matched in space by the physical one. as visitors walk through the hall, the visuals and environment around them respond to their motion. when they move, it moves, when they stop, it stops.

this border between the physical and the digital became the playspace of the piece. because we were using a vr headset, i could track the user’s position in realtime, stretching hallways away from them, and shrinking them back just in time.




with each step forward, they are brought further into complicity with the destruction and collapse of the world around them. the halls shift, forests grow and evaporate, and the world finally falls into chaos.











you and me
but inevitably, with each step forward, they are brought further into complicity with the destruction and collapse of the world around them. the halls shift, forests grow and evaporate, and the world finally falls into chaos.





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