CreepyPasta
by Harrison Hall
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‘CreepyPasta’ (2026) by Harrison Hall.
— Nothing happens. Still, it creeps. The room we never chose, but can’t log out of.
Named after a branch of internet folk horror: short, anonymous tales copied, pasted and passed between strangers online, CreepyPasta is a new transmedia dance work by Harrison Hall, with Mat Spisbah, Nikki Tarling, Jozef Meyer, Matthew Crosby and Andrew Treloar.
CreepyPasta descends into the psychobabble of modernity — a thousand threads and private chambers talking over each other. Disparate strands of horror cinema and conspiracy rabbit holes collapse into an Illbient unease that gives no pleasure and offers no exit; the room we never chose but can’t log out of. These corrosive imaginaries burn pathways into our beings despite nothing ever happening.
Rather than diagnosing the condition or promising escape, CreepyPasta stays inside the haze, building a porous, restless space where movement, sound and media bleed into one another. Positioning the body as the place where all this lands: the soft tissue that absorbs a world built in servers and leaking with dreams.
Hall treats dance as a way of thinking through what we are repulsed but drawn to — asking what it costs to remain, and why we keep telling ourselves the stories that hold us here.
Nothing happens. Still, it creeps.
Lead Artist Harrison Hall
Sound Mat Spisbah
Assistant Choreography Nikki Tarling
Dramaturg Mathew Crosby
Lighting Jozef Meyer
Costume Andrew Treloar
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Harrison Hall’s work situates contemporary performance and dance in experiential art environments. His recent works traverse states of flux within digital and live worlds, working to increase the embodied experience in mixed digital and live performance contexts. His hybrid choreographic works have premiered at Sydney Opera House, ACMI, CTM festival (Berlin), ACC (Korea), Zerospace (New York) working with a range of local and international artists. His awards include a Green Room Award, MIFF selection and recently the Expand Lab Moving Image Commission. Recently he has been collaborating on Lu Yang’s Doku, first at ACMI and then most recently at the Sydney Opera House as well as leading Body Crysis, alongside NAXS Future, presented at the Substation, Melbourne. He was an invited artist at the Taipei Performing Art Centre’s ADAM artist Lab and is a recipient of the Chloe Munro AO Fellowship.
Nikki Tarling is a Naarm-based contemporary dance artist whose practice spans performance, collaboration and teaching. Recognised as a “Dancer to Watch” by Dance Australia, she has worked with renowned companies and independent artists across Australia, including Chunky Move, The Farm, Melanie Lane and Dancenorth. Alongside this, Nikki has worked collaboratively with contemporary sculpt artist Jemima Lucas, presenting works presented across galleries, venues, and club contexts in Naarm.
Andrew Treloar is an artist working between contemporary art, dance and fashion design practices. He has long-term non-monogamous collaborative relationships with Harrison Hall, Henry Jock Walker, and Jack Riley. He has been commissioned to design works for Jo Lloyd, Alisdair MacIndoe, Harrison Ritchie-Jones, Dancenorth, Marrugeku, Lucy Guerin Inc., and Chunky Move. His design work has shown across many venues and festivals throughout Australia including the 2018 Commgames Opening Ceremony. Favourite projects with Harrison Hall include The Venusian Slip, The Venusian Slip 2.0 and Surprise, Surprize.
Spisbah is a musician, media artist and amateur researcher working across sound and technological systems. Rooted in Australia’s experimental music communities, his practice spans performance, exhibitions and collaborative projects throughout Australia and the Asia Pacific — treating sound, code and infrastructure as expressive materials.
Niph is a multi-disciplinary, new-media artist, focusing on generative light sculptures and other environmental installations, working primarily on unceded Ngunnawal and Ngambri land. Niph is interested in the familiarity of chaotic noise structures captured from natural sources. They are also a versatile digital designer, having worked on a diverse range of commissions from inception to installation. Niph’s work has gained attention in the electronic music scene. Notably, they have produced immersive installations for Mode Festival (Eora), Manifestion x Steeplejack (Naarm) and Woodburnia (Gumbaynggirr country). Additionally, they have produced dynamic digital artwork and event environmental designs for Ana Roxanne (USA), Zara (Naarm), Third Space (Naarm) and Chun Yin Rainbow Chan (Eora).
