“Water Listener – Immersive, edible journey in 8 chapters”

Directing/Writing/Scenography/Sound

An immersive dining experience that blends storytelling, space, and cuisine into a seamless sensory journey. Chengdu, Sichuan, China, 2025

“Art Taste”

Directing/Scenography/Sound

Multi-sensory Experience/Performance/installation, China, May 2025

“Silence is Waiting”

Performance/installation/multi-sensory experience, London, September 2023

concept, space, direction – Hardy Gru; performer – Andra Anghelache, sound: silence

A multi-sensory experience that explores stillness and silence and our perception of time in them, the journeys that you can take yourself on, and the powers and abilities that you have hidden in you. The space you enter will be as silent as you are; as still as you want it to be. Every space that you enter is an extension of You and Silence is You. Silence is waiting for you. Take a journey to talk to your Silence.

"to make silence talk - 
talk to your silence
close your eyes and
look into yourself -
there is beautiful
nothingness
full of possibilities
bare wall without walls
empty doorways
toeverything
and silence is waiting
and you are there
everywhere
you are here"
Hardy Gru

“You Are Not”

Performance/installation/You, July 2023

To be experienced in front of the mirror.

Take a seat in front of a mirror, press play and look into your left eye

Concept, text – Hardy Gru. Sound – Hardy Gru and TrAArt. Voice – Toby Jepp.

“Empty Water”

Performance/installation/meditation

Created for Canal Dream Festival, June 2023. Performed on a canal boat.

A meditative experience – listening to the water from the canal while it returns back home.

Water is a journey. Water is time and life. It is formless and limitless, it is full of potential and possibilities and pollution. Water is pure, healing and clean, but when it is not – it talks to us, it takes us on a journey while it returns to the canal.

London’s canals are still filled with sewage, industrial waste and all types of pollution. It is so dirty that one has to wash their hands after touching canal waters. Various diseases swim alongside boats and shopping trolleys.

Water is vital for all forms of life. No one can survive without it. We are made out of it. We are the water. When the water in us is dirty – the water around us is dirty. We are polluting ourselves by polluting everything around us.

Concept, text – Hardy Gru. Sound – trAArt. Voice – Vlad Dolezal

Tasteless. Waste-less. You-less.Tasteless. Waste-less. Me-less. Tasteless. Waste-less. Emptiness

“Some shadows last longer than others”

by Hardy Gru. Grove Studios & various sites in London, 2023

We create worlds around us that don’t exist. We have no time and we are forgetting that there is no time – it is us, here, now, for us. We are stuck between the past and the future. We are here now. Stuck.

I stood still and there was all this time running around me

There was me running around myself

I could not breathe out

Just in

I was still and silent and

Screaming emptiness was holding my hand

I opened my eyes and they were closed

We are what we pretend to be.

I am stuck in between my ears again

And the wind laughs in my face

It’s time to go

It’s time

To pretend

It’s time

Some shadows last longer than others

“Rope-Sight”

by Hardy Gru. Grove Studios, London, 2022

The art of ringing. The art of change. A performance where participants are the creators of their universe, they are animators of the site. They are not just a part of the story, but they ARE the story. Scenography of participants

“The Owl Man”

by Richard Crowe. With Peoples String Foundation and Ged Stephenson. Glastonbury 2021 (R&D). UK tour 2022/2023. Set, Puppet and Costume Designer/Artist on Stage

“Memory Foam”

Sound/dance performance/ritual for Feast Festival, Great Malvern, 2021

Concept. Design. Directing, Great Malvern, 2021

We have been isolated and alone for far too long. Holding ceremonies of self, vigils for the last vestiges of someone who can not be, can not wake up even when eyes are wide open; we can not bare to let go.

“Memory Foam” is a ritual for both the audiences and performers. An experimental mix of theatre, dance and sound that explores the difference between sleeping and dreaming, between real and un-real. Live soundscapes that are based on brain wave patterns in sleep, created and corresponding in response to contemporary tap dance. It explores the ego split and trapped between the ever-underlying will to be, reaching for ideals in memories rather than future aspirations, and fear of failing and therefore of act of living.