Live performance with virtual reality for one person at a time. Using VR glasses, the viewer enters an artist's studio and becomes an observer. An interactive installation about our perception.
A dusty, cramped studio in Paris, sometime in 1958: Alberto Giacometti and a woman who calls herself Caroline sit opposite each other. Caroline is a prostitute, but today she has been summoned because he wants to paint her. Giacometti is notorious for his eternal dissatisfaction with his own works. He is never satisfied, he never completes a work. Reality, as he sees it, cannot simply be depicted. Or does the image not allow itself to be adapted to his reality?
In the analog-virtual installation "Selfportrait", RAUM+ZEIT outlines the archetypal situation between model and artist and examines the obsessive and authoritarian mechanisms of this relationship. Two chairs in an empty room, two perspectives, two people - one encounter. The triangular relationship between the actress Sophie Hutter, a 360° camera and the viewer is constantly changing, both in virtual space and in reality: who is watching whom? Who creates which image of whom? And where is the essence of a person?
Selfportrait :: Giacometti © Heinz Holzmann
One person at a time enters the installation alone and experiences a game between subject and object, identification and distance, observation and action from different perspectives, analog and virtual, immersive and as a conventional spectator. RAUM+ZEIT brings analog theater and virtual reality together in a new form. The visitors are at the center of the action: they are led to a boundary where it becomes questionable whether they are merely observers or already part of the installation. They act in a power play of seeing and being seen. Installation and reality, memory and present merge into a new experience.
May 24 to 29, 2024
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