What can you be made to do? Would you notice if you were part of an experiment?
The CIA wanted to discover whether mind control was possible. They called the programme MK ULTRA.
Tripping Out explores one of the Cold War's most notorious secret programmes and its relationship with the countercultural movement of the 1960s. Drawing on declassified documents, testimonies, archival imagery, and historical research the piece is part history play, part mind control experiment, part LSD light show. We ask what people can be made to do and how belief can be shaped? Why is this secret history still echoing through today's world of conspiracy theories, political distrust, and competing realities?
Created by Compact Disc, an experimental performance, live art, and video collective making work that feels dangerous.
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