eatingthegame is a motivational keynote address from creative entrepreneur Conor Wylie, drawing a connection between [INSERT CANADIAN CITY] and the limitless economic potential of Asia. Then it’s Conor’s personal story of a pilgrimage of self-discovery in China where he adopted a pheasant. Then it’s a keynote again. Then it abruptly ends.

Then it’s an artist Q&A. Then it’s a game called ‘White or Asian.’ Then it’s a making-of. Then it’s a pitch to presenters to buy a show called eatingthegame that is exponentially bigger and more expensive than the show they are currently watching. Then there’s the seduction of [INSERT CONTROVERSIAL POLITICIAN] and a shady corporate alter ego and a cock fight. Then it’s a keynote again. Then Conor Wylie literally eats himself.

At various times it’s about mixed identity, how cultural production fuels gentrification, and how we sell ourselves again and again and again.

A Hong Kong Exile production.

Writer + Performer: Conor Wylie

Director: Milton Lim

Projection Designers: Milton Lim + Remy Siu

Sound + Media Designer: Remy Siu

Movement Collaborator + Producer: Natalie Tin Yin Gan

Holographic video: Sepehr Samimi

ETG Teaser: Sepehr Samimi & Josue Sanchez

Dramaturg + Mentor: Tim Carlson (Theatre Conspiracy)