Gravity, how are you? 2024
Virtual reality experience,
headset + headphone, 12’ 00”
headset + headphone, 12’ 00”
This poetic virtual reality experience explores how the human body carries and absorbs emotional events.
The work transports the visitor to a beachside city where a body surrenders to gravity. In this setting of slowly changing tides and hand-formed objects - shells and keys -, a voice recites a text. Impressions and imprints of interpersonal communication are woven
together, juxtaposing the viewer's body against the digital body. The gesture of lying down invites the viewer to look at their own vulnerability with a new attention and explore the impact of the other.
The experience is supported by a tactile, interactive 360°soundscape that immerses you in the city by the sea.
In collaboration with sound artist Ewoud Van Eetvelde.
There is a version with an English voice-over and a version with a Dutch voice-over.
The work transports the visitor to a beachside city where a body surrenders to gravity. In this setting of slowly changing tides and hand-formed objects - shells and keys -, a voice recites a text. Impressions and imprints of interpersonal communication are woven
together, juxtaposing the viewer's body against the digital body. The gesture of lying down invites the viewer to look at their own vulnerability with a new attention and explore the impact of the other.
The experience is supported by a tactile, interactive 360°soundscape that immerses you in the city by the sea.
In collaboration with sound artist Ewoud Van Eetvelde.
There is a version with an English voice-over and a version with a Dutch voice-over.
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Writer, director and developer:
Sarah Lauwers
Sound design:
Ewoud Van Eetvelde.
Voice-over:
Anna Borodikhina
Performer:
Ibtissam Boulbahaiem
Coproduction:
BAC ART LAB KU Leuven,
with the support of KU[N]ST Leuven
and Het Depot
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