The infamous modernist structure of the Commonwealth Institute has been closed to the public since 2002. It teeters between the remembered, the future and the strange existence of a near 10-year pause. Responding to the rules and nature of the space, a diverse spectrum of artists operating at the forefront of site responsive theatre will work to form a cyclic narrative using opera, ballet and new composition to represent a decade of limbo and a building of many different ends.

The void will be explored, the vessel will make vessels of us all. Nature abhors a vacuum. It is not empty.