Experience MONUMENTUM

"There is No Drama In Distance."

Imagine stepping out of the Montreal evening into a high-energy gallery launch party. The bass reverberates through the floorboards, vibrant hues of neon lighting wash across the room, and a subtle, intoxicating fragrance lingers in the air. Around you, musicians rehearse, poets converse over drinks, and security weaves through a buzzing crowd.

There is no auditorium, no velvet seats in the dark, and definitely no traditional stage. This is MONUMENTUM , a groundbreaking immersive production that dissolves the boundary between reality and performance, inviting you to step directly inside the world of the narrative. Experiencing MONUMENTUM is like passing through the screen and finding yourself inside a single-shot film where every camera movement is driven by you , your own movement, curiosity, and instinct.

The World

To the outside world, the evening is billed as MEDIA CIRCUS , an exclusive launch party for Lupus Nuda , the new record label founded by the high-profile art firm Wolfsburg. What attendees don't realize as they cross the threshold is that they aren't just arriving at a gallery event, they are stepping into a meticulously constructed reality where every detail, each performance, interaction, and conflict, has been engineered around them. Without registering they have passed into a narrative, they become part of a living world of art, ambition, power, loyalty, romance, and intrigue.

At the center of this world stands Conor Blaine , the charismatic and magnetic Artistic Director. Surrounding him is an electric web of personalities:

• The Strategists & Visionaries: Driven allies trying to manage escalating crises behind the scenes.
• The Performers: Passionate musicians and poets debuting raw, original works live throughout the evening.
• The Rivals: Former partners and colleagues pursuing unresolved grievances.

As personal dramas unfold, you aren't forced to watch from a distance, instead you choose where to walk, who to follow, and which stories to uncover.

Why MONUMENTUM Captivates Every Sense

MONUMENTUM transforms space into a multi-sensory environment engineered to immerse you completely :

• Total Physical Freedom: Follow a high-stakes conversation into an intimate corner of the room, head to the bar for a drink, or step into the outdoor smoking area where characters and attendees mingle on Boulevard Saint Laurent. Your agency dictates your unique path through the story.
• A Living, Breathing World: Every object, performance, and interaction is real. Performers share original art and live music created specifically for their roles. You can pick up physical books published in-universe, browse authentic merchandise, or engage directly with characters around you in real time.
• Synchronized Sensory Design: Dynamic lighting shifts fluidly to mirror rising narrative tension, tailored ambient soundscapes physically ground you in key moments, and innovative scent design subtly triggers emotional responses throughout the venue.
• Unprecedented Authenticity: From real-world security blending into the storyline to character-driven camera crews capturing real-time events, every element is crafted so that the line between fiction and reality dissolves entirely.

Redefining the Future of Live Entertainment

MONUMENTUM isn't just an event; it's a living, breathing discrete reality that transforms passive spectators into active co-creators. It provides an emotional adrenaline rush, combining the atmosphere of a launch party with the emotional and psychological depth of a film.

By pushing the boundaries of what immersive performance can achieve, MONUMENTUM stands at the front line of a new era of entertainment, offering an unforgettable experience that lives long… like a monument should.

Original MONUMENTUM Concept Script Workshop (2024)

The Architect of Immersive Reality

For the vast majority of art, especially performance art, the experience remains trapped within a determinably rigid framework, one that confines audiences to a single, limited perspective from a safe distance. Immersive creator Andrew Jamieson has spent years challenging that limitation.

A creative who moves fluidly across disciplines as a classically trained actor, writer, director, musician, and visual artist, Jamieson rejects the idea that art should be confined to a canvas. His work operates on a core philosophy: borderlessness is not a stylistic choice, but the baseline of true creative evolution. Whether he is building avant-garde theatrical spaces, producing independent publications, guerilla performance events, or composing original work, Jamieson treats every thing he creates as a tool to disrupt passive consumption and challenge the boundaries of how art is experienced. Beyond his theatrical and performance work, Jamieson serves as the Founder and President of Forget The Box Media,  as well as the Creative Director of Forget The Box(.ca) , cementing his leadership within Montreal's independent cultural landscape.

Building on a critically acclaimed body of work, including his breakout immersive production Who’s Afraid (Montreal, 2018), Jamieson developed his practise, Immersive Reality (IR) : a rigorous, multi-sensory discipline that draws its structural blueprint not from traditional theatrical conventions, but from sources such as the radical stream-of-consciousness techniques of 20th-century literature (Joyce, Woolf, Faulkner, Cortázar, Borges). Rather than relying on superficial set dressing or gimmicks, his methodology treats physical space as a navigable mind. He transforms raw venues into living environments where the boundary between fiction and reality quietly dissolves, turning passive spectators into active, emotionally engaged co-creators.

Read more about Andrew Jamieson's immersive theory in his paper, Strategies of Immersion.

Backing Andrew Jamieson’s work, you aren't funding a standard professional theatre production. You are investing in a rigorous, uncompromising artistic pioneer who is fundamentally redefining the architecture of immersive performance, proving that theatre can operate with the exact same psychological density, emotional complexity, and raw weight as the greatest novels ever written.

Andrew Jamieson's Spatializing Consciousness: The Literary Mind of Immersive Theatre

360-Degree Video Clip of Andrew Jamieson's Who's Afraid at Godberd (Montreal 2018)

Financial Milestones

Milestone 1: $3,000.00 — The Script Residency Foundation

This initial milestone secures the foundation for MONUMENTUM by funding the community co-contribution toward the rigorous 6-day WIP Gallery script residency. It covers essential operational materials, artist transit stipends, and the documentation required to capture the early phases of development. By unlocking this goal, backers enable the core creative team to step into the venue space, test spatial script mechanics, and lay the concrete groundwork for the entire production.

Milestone 2: $6,550.00 — The Act II Generation Workshop

This milestone unlocks a dedicated 1-day generative writers' room and actor lab at Studio 415. Bringing together the director, six core stage-performing characters, and professional support staff (including a script supervisor, technical assistant, and production manager), this intensive session focuses entirely on building out the music, poetry, and dialogue tracks for Act II. Funding this phase ensures that every professional collaborator receives fair, industry-standard compensation while actively shaping the living script in real time.

Milestone 3: $11,650.00 — The Sensory & Technical R&D Mentorship

The final funding tier fully realizes the technical and sensory engine of MONUMENTUM . This milestone unlocks specialized mentorship in lighting and sound psychology, a pre-audit planning meeting, and the acquisition of a dedicated production computer, software licenses, and spatial testing hardware. Additionally, it covers transparent administrative campaign operations. Together, these elements fund the sophisticated R&D lab required to engineer the production's multi-sensory environment, ensuring that the final execution operates at an elite, professional standard.