Open World Theatre is a creative arts practice with a martial arts philosophy. As ‘Art Marshals’ we train across EMBODIMENT, CREATIVITY & QUESTING, aspiring to cultivate an ability, (or at least willingness), to ‘be anyone’ and ‘experience anything’.
In essence the sole goal is to open into a state of FULL ALIVENESS! We follow the path of beauty that includes RISK, REALITY & ROMANCE.
“Atlas Talisman is a game designer and journeyman who has initiated himself into the art of improvised living by engaging in social experiments which move him beyond the established transactional methods of survival.
He traveled across both Australia and America without the use of money and experimented with game theory and free form adventure in several countries through Europe.
Recently living in Tokyo for a year, working on developing a ‘metahub’ to deliver metaverse experience in a physical space, he is now back on the road with his OWCH Adventure Club!
Currently prototyping the full Open World Gymnasium curriculum in Byron Bay before moving to Berlin to establish a home for Open World training.
Tune in to the OWTCast podcast to follow the adventures!”
We make our own rules. We play our own games!
To achieve these aspirations I create arena’s for authentic human interactions: sensory playgrounds, immersive theatre, cross-reality games and social experiments that cultivate sentience in the players.
To play simply takes honesty and brave acceptance.
I am an Improvisor welcoming others into ‘The Moment’. I’m a martial artist training in art and beauty towards an expanded awareness of what is.
I am here to support you as you respond to your innate call to adventure, so that your legacy may be the signature of your soul!
To see a few ways I’ve attempted to achieve this in my past projects visit the history page.
As the Director of Open World Theatre and the Quest Master of OWTCH Adventure Club, I intend to lead by example; as I give my life to my own inventions and invite them to shape me, just as I have shaped them.
Arenas of Experience are the playgrounds where we come to terms with our humanness by stalking the moment, guided by what feels most alive and true.
OWTCH stands for ‘Open World Theatre Collaborative Heuristics‘ which explores navigating the unknown as a collective; crowd-sourcing decision making and assigning personal control to the audience, who become players of the human being as an avatar in the game of life.
I find, time and time again, that beyond our thresholds of tolerance, there is not pain or death, but instead exhilerating pleasure and life! That, infact, the fear and discomfort of avoidance was worse than the experience we were trying to avoid.
Open World rallies an ensemble of brave and curious humans who are willing to join me in the experiment of exposing themselves to Life.
I truly hope that something wonderful results. Something embodying a kind of innocence, creativity and naturalness that inspires the core humanity in all of us, to resurface.
Thank YOU for playing…