Guidelines

“We cannot allow you to go into the heart of that silent dark forest and to the door of that cabin. You will not like what is in the cabin. We know what is in the cabin and it is very, very bad.”

In the sterile glow of a Silicon Valley boardroom, two beguiling strangers meticulously outline the terms and conditions. In the beating heart of a search engine, a shadow falls across your browser tab, whispering that everything will be okay as long as you keep your eyes fixed on the radiant screen.

In a barren field lost in time, two teenage girls prise open a portal they'll never be able to close. Guidelines is a live haunting for the social media age, a primordial ritual conjuring the dark side of growing up online. Summoning the internet as the deep dark woods of our cultural imagination, this is a shapeshifting journey through cached nightmares, a conjuring in the comments section, and a reckoning with all the things you were too young to see or understand. This is the debut show from CONGLOMERATE.