Time travel back to yesteryear when the Fringe was more experimental and abstract, offering fun, quirky works that were rarely seen elsewhere. In doing so, you’ll leap forward in time to witness the fate of the human race in 100, 1,000 and 10,000 years from now. This is Liminal Treats, a bizarro sci-fi/séance (sci-ance) adventure where the audience explores and interacts with the outlandish performance art of futuristic beings. Our host is an enthusiastic PhD candidate who hopes for great things from his self-built time machine. As participants chant four deeply considered words, the machine cranks up in a display of lights and smoke, bringing us to a gateway of four futures. We’re kept safe from contamination by sour sweets as we explore the worlds of a Mad Max-eque tinkerer of electronics, a nesting human-animal-plant hybrid, a power-cord lady of dubious sanity, and a silent man attempting to connect and communicate. Each are lost in their activities; apparitions of things to come. We observe, wonder and occasionally engage with these live moving images, oblivious to the outside world that has created their state of being. They are a future memory out of context and place, where traces of humanity, and their need for exploration, nurturing and companionship can still be found, no matter how far they have evolved from today’s humankind. As fellow researchers, we are invited to write down what we observe, moving between rooms to an underscore of mood music. The characters and settings are anything but serious despite reminding us to never lose our humanity. This is left-of-centre, absurdist humour that will make you frown, laugh, be surprised, and come away with something to think about.