MAKE SURE YOU'RE ALONE WHEN YOU WISH AT THE WELL as an interdisciplinary curio, expanding on performance and the moving image through a carefully staged hybrid installation-performance that employs cinematic strategies. The work unfolds from a set of conditions—the hermetic yet porous nature of high-rise living, the pull of digital spectacle, and the anarchic potential of animatronic systems—bound together by a quixotic logic likened to the image of a wishing well.

As audiences enter, a sequence begins to assemble itself. Screens reflect, machines stir, and temporary sculptural forms take shape in real time. What emerges is not a singular action but a drifting progression, activated by the audience’s arrival and sustained by a non-human cast of computers and automated gestures. Human presence registers only intermittently, absorbed into a larger, fragmented rhythm that breathes, pauses, and resumes.

The work treats the wishing well as a technology of address—a proto-screen—where calls are made in advance of any response. As this anti-ritual continues, attention lingers on unresolved questions that remain suspended in the space: who are we wishing to, what are we wishing for, and what, exactly, has already been offered.