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UK, 30 mins; MR, Dance, Performance, Social XR
Inspired by microorganisms called extremophiles that live on the edge of habitability in some of Earth’s most inhospitable environments, Hinterlands is a mixed reality headset experience on the speculative futures of human evolution. Movement, spatial sound and augmented reality create a space that unfolds differently for you and the dancer. Through an invitation to move, you will explore our entanglement with the natural and digital world and possibilities for surviving, evolving and becoming. Wearing an XR headset allows you to see both the world around you and a mixed reality layer.
WHEN:
30 NOV (SATURDAY): 10:00-14:00, 15:30-17:00
1 DEC (SUNDAY): 10:00-14:00, 15:30-17:00
WHERE: PSNC Future Labs
Image credits: Mira Loew and Alexander MacKinnon
Rebecca Evans has been creating work using interactive and immersive technologies combined with dance since 2014 in the UK and internationally. She explores how movement and digital tools deepen our sense of interdependence within a human, environmental, and technological ecology, speculating on new ways of being. She holds an MA in Immersive and Extended Realities from UWE Bristol and is currently a Studio Wayne McGregor Resident 6 Artist, recently winning the Grand Jury Prize at Art*VR for HINTERLANDS.
Directed by Choreographer Rebecca Evans in collaboration with Lead Creative Technologist Clemence Debaig of Unwired Studio, Creative Technologists Rebecca Evans and Jon Higgins, Animation and VFX Alexander MacKinnon, Dancers Ania Varez, Jan-Ming Lee, Anna Kaszuba and Antony Daly Luna, Sound Artist Christian Duka, Dramaturg Joanne Skapinker and Intimacy and Consent coordinator Mira Loew. Mentoring and support from Alexander Whitley and Naomi Smyth. Partners:UWE Bristol, Knowle West Media Centre and The Studio, :Studio Wayne McGregor through Resident 6, Arts Council England.
PL, 45 mins, XR, Dance, Lecture, Projections, VRChat, Social XR, Hybrid
Future Presence is an artistic research project which choreographer and performer Iza Szostak has been developing since 2020. The artist explores virtual reality (VR) as a space where a collective community substitutes physical closeness with virtual embodiment. In a performative lecture, Iza Szostak will log into Future Presence through her virtual identity, guiding the audience through the world she has designed. Szostak treats each performance as a unique reveal of a specific stage in her ongoing work.
WHEN:
30 NOV (SATURDAY): 13:00, 16:00
WHERE: PSNC Future Labs
Image credits: FUTURE PRESENCE / Jerzy Wypych / WRO Biennale 2021
Iza Szostak, choreographer and performer, creates work rooted in the principles of new materialism, investigating the dynamic relationships between body and object. Her performances explore hybrid forms, where the body becomes a medium for emotion, and choreography serves as a tool for constructing order. She is a graduate of the Warsaw Ballet School and Codarts in Rotterdam. Since 2020, she has been developing VR projects, including Future Presence (WRO Biennale) and Score (TRAFO). Based in Warsaw, she is a co-founder of the Centrum w Ruchu collective and collaborates with Kuba Słomkowski.
Concept and Performance: Iza Szostak; Music: Kuba Słomkowski; Costume Design: Karolina Mełnicka; Technical and Conceptual Support: Sebastian Krysiak, Anastasiia Vorobiova; VR Streaming: Janek Skorupa, Paweł Sołoducha; Producer: Ciało/Umysł Foundation; Partners: Dream Adoption Society, Adam Mickiewicz Institute. The project was developed in part through the Adam Mickiewicz Institute’s Art House program, in collaboration with the Dream Adoption Society residency program, and at the invitation of the Ciało/Umysł Festival.
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