Fear Is What We Learned Here re-imagined Screenshot’s first immersive performance piece as a synesthetic journey through light, sound, and image. A one-on-one presentation of performance in environments created by projection, sound and physical installation. The piece explored fear as a tool for social and political control, challenging individuals to consider their perceptions and ask what is necessary to subvert systems of manipulation.

The piece placed individual audience members in a variety of situations and contexts in which they were robbed of agency, exploring abuses of power within political and religious institutions as well as within interpersonal and familial dynamics. While in the majority of the piece, the audience member felt a lack of agency, the ultimate message was one of empowerment. Even with a seeming lack of agency and empowerment, individuals and collections of people should make their voices heard and stand up to manipulation and abuses of power.

F I W W L H was staged both in San Francisco in January of 2017 and in Los Angeles in March of 2017.