Nowiswhenweare (the stars) - Wales Millennium Centre / Canolfan Mileniwm Cymru

This experience is part of the Annwn Prize, a new global prize celebrating immersive storytelling from artists around the world. Nominated by an international community of curators and commentators, four shortlisted works come to Wales Millennium Centre, inviting you to step inside the story. Four worlds, one venue.

Step into total darkness and become the centre of a shifting constellation. Nowiswhenweare (the stars) is an immersive, interactive, light and sound installation guiding each visitor through an internal monologue about grief, community, and the one-way-ness of time. It is ultimately a story about you.

Andrew Schneider’s powerful installation draws you into a contemplative and deeply personal encounter with time, memory and presence. An interactive theatrical installation where the audience steps into total darkness and become the centre of a shifting constellation. Guided by an unseen narrator, participants journey from complete sensory deprivation into a precisely programmed matrix of nearly 4,000 reactive LED lights and a 496-channel soundscape. The work draws visitors into a hyper-focus of the present, tracing every decision they have made leading to that precise moment. The selection committee praised its highly original approach to spatial storytelling, precise technical virtuosity and masterful pacing that invites audiences to reflect on how we spend our time and the meaning we discover in everyday acts.

Part-meditation, part-exploration, this dazzling fusion of tech and theatre is a rare chance to get lost in the stars.