Head Trip audiovisual show

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“Jeff Warren’s Head Trip show takes you on a journey through your own mind – including to places you barely knew existed. He doesn’t just tell you about them – he makes them happen….. you arrive back at the beginning with a new vision of inner space. Truly fantastic!”
-science journalist Rita Carter, author of Mapping the Mind and Consciousness

How well do you know your own mind? The Head Trip is an audio-visual journey through twelve distinct states of waking, sleeping and dreaming consciousness, complete with jokes and dance moves. Although informed by science, the show’s primarily focus is first-person experience—what it feels like to be aware at different times of day and night. The idea is to use moving image and music and narration to hypnotically provoke each state of consciousness in the audience, to move them peristaltically through contrasting perspectives until, 45 minutes later, they are deposited gently on the other side, blinking and dumbfounded, their sense both of self and reality altered forever. That is, if they don’t nod off during the tedious bits.

Although I presented shorter versions of the Head Trip show in Toronto and New York, the full show had its international premiere at the gala night of the Asia Consciousness Festival in Hong Kong on June 5th, 2009.

Here are some pictures of the audience:

Look at the people of Hong Kong, they are so very happy.

Some of these people are nerds of quite high repute, and yet still they smile, for it is nice to have the abstract subject of consciousness presented in such an accessible manner.

People seem to really like this show, with its combination of mind-blowing ideas, feel-good tone, and theatrical presentation style. Two more successful performances happened at the Towards a Science of Consciousness conference in Hong Kong on June 13th, 2009, and at the Art and Mind festival in Winchester, UK on June 27th, 2009.

Asia Consciousness festival link here.
Art and Mind festival link here.