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Facades
Facades
by Studio Displace
Facades
by Studio Displace
Country:
UK, UK
Genre:
VR (Experimental Dance Theatre)
Platform:
Meta Quest 2, Meta Quest 3
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Facades is a 15 minute Immersive VR Dance Theatre experience which utilises Volumetric Capture. Inspired by iconic moments from film, Facades uses the architectural features of windows, mirrors and doors as metaphors for duality, reflection and portals. This surreal ‘VR noir’ presents hauntingly beautiful choreography from unique perspectives, inviting the viewer to look behind the scenes, move beyond the veneer and take a closer look. With rich and moving music, this bodily experience challenges the norms and rules of VR, and this glitch artwork allows the rough edges of volumetric capture to act as a metaphor for how we present ourselves through digital media - asking ‘What is found? What is lost?’. The performer has a perfect angle, but behind this a void. Over a series of encounters with a mysterious woman in a domestic setting, audiences position themselves within an unfolding narrative. Facades uses dance and gesture to intersect the audience’s sense of personal space and delicately build a relationship between the audience and the performer. The choreography highlights the fabricated intimacy that can be achieved in virtual space. Often a melancholic experience, it shows how through digitisation we can dissolve into data or make new relationships. Throughout 2021-2023 Facades has toured over 17 venues including 3 international festivals and 2 major UK film festivals. In 2024 Facades will be released as a Meta Quest version of the work at the Now Play This festival at Somerset House, in London on 6-14th April 2024, and from there the work will tour to the Currents festival (US).