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TPI House
TPI House functions as both a permanent installation and a site for hosted productions. For other immersive and architectural works, see architecture and installations.
TPI House (The Perpetual Interior) is a permanent art collective and immersive venue founded in year by founders [citation needed], housed in a modified 19th-century structure whose interior layout serves as a living installation reflecting the franchise's spatial metaphysics. The collective's stated aim is to stage Beach Surgery adaptations as *site-specific inhabitations* rather than performances—works that occupy the building's rooms, corridors, and gardens as though the architecture itself were the sixth chapter.
The structure's seven rooms are arranged to evoke the Newcastle/interior division: rooms 1–3 densely wired with broadcast frequencies and decorated with drone photographs, while rooms 4–7 transition through increasingly arid dust-garden installations. Visitors navigate at their own pace, encountering Leif and Katita as scattered voices on looped audio, written fragments, and ephemeral installations that shift seasonally.
The collective has hosted participatory LARPs, residencies for international artists, and documentary video series exploring the glitch through architectural and sensory lens. Access remains tightly controlled; the venue has never been photographed comprehensively, leading to extensive speculation regarding its true form and location [citation needed].