‘Take a trip through our dopamine fantasy’
Spectra Spectra cracks open the spectrum!
Twelve colours as portals
each one a frequency
a mood
an archetype
Conceived by the Artist ‘öFFêRîNGş’ (Melissa Gilbert), the work slices into colour theory not as pigment on a wheel but as lived vibration.
Each hue is choreographed: a feeling you can taste, a sound you can wear, a frequency you can inhabit.Gilbert threads colour into an edgy multi-sensory map — from the blistering red of survival and desire, to the violet shimmer of transcendence — each chapter a collision of molecular gastronomy, performance, light, and sonic atmosphere. Sound becomes architecture, food becomes theatre, bodies become conduits. Within every colour lies a layered world of experience design, where archetypes surface and dissolve, where the boundaries between ritual, rave, and haute cuisine collapse.
This is not theory. It’s immersion — an alchemy of shade, sound, and sensation that pushes colour into the bloodstream.
The Artist
Melissa Gilbert (ØFFËRÎNGŠ) is an award-winning Australian contemporary artist, educator, and experience designer who has spent over 15 years engineering underground dining experiences that collide food, art, and performance into high-voltage, multi-sensory rituals. Founder of UnitePlayPerform (UPP) and Co-Founder of The Nest Creative Space, she transforms restaurants, warehouses, museums, and cityscapes into full-throttle fantasy worlds.
From the maker of Hyper Real (17 sold-out immersive dining sessions with Chin Chin) to show director of Hong Kong Design District’s iconic Heart of Cyberpunk (drawing 17,000 people), Gilbert’s immersive dining works have gained cult-like status for their unapologetic immersion and relentless participation. She has also performed in Kirsha Kaechele’s “Eat the Problem” at Dark Mofo / MONA, expanding her practice into global experimental dining performance.
Her method fuses 12 archetypes, colour theory, applied neuroscience, and play as pedagogy, culminating in the invisible archetype—quintessence—the space of possibility activated by human presence.
Every concept a portal for transmutation. Every space a dopamine dream for deep, transformative experience.
Collaborators
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Mikaela Stafford
Artist Mikaela Stafford makes motion graphics and biomorphic sculptural works, predominantly in the 3D digital art space. Her work explores the opportunities and challenges of a cyber-physical world and hopes to provide people a sense of optimism about the future. Mikaela draws inspiration from bioluminescent creatures, the symbology of spheres, and hypothetical futures.
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Program
UnitePlayPerform’s program at Purpose Conference 2023 transformed Carriageworks into a living laboratory of systems change. Through Unity Web, Extractive Force, Boundary Makers, and the Meeting Halfway panel, 1000+ delegates moved beyond spectatorship into embodied participation — weaving, grieving, disrupting, and dialoguing.
Experiential practice guided participants collectively through unique parts of the building, designed to evoke collective potential and spark self-expression, joy, play, courage, compassion, activism, optimism, and exploration. Prompts and invitations urged delegates to find their edge, to practise the art of ceremony and communing, reshaping perspectives and tracing behaviours, patterns, and felt sense experiences through live, interactive encounters.
Performance
Extractive Force and Boundary Makers
Extractive Force and Boundary Makers redefined performance within a conference context. A grief rite procession with live a cappella by Melissa Gilbert and 5 contemporary dancers moved 1000 delegates into collective stillness, while five roaming performers disrupted habitual flows through Carriageworks. Together, they embodied disruption, vulnerability, and cultural repair within systems-change discourse.
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