THERE (2019)

First person virtual world audiovisual experience

 

Our dreams, hopes and expectations all constitute an idealised locale out THERE. Yet, our best intentions and efforts to reach it are hampered by situations beyond our control, restricting us both physically and mentally.

 

The VR experience presented during the Track’n'Field event at Backspace places the visitors in the deep and narrow well of a hopeless routine from which they are unable to escape, unable to move. All the fears, all the worries manifest themselves in an increasingly dismal soundscape. The flickering rays of daylight shining ever so briefly in the opening far above, a bitter reminder of shattered dreams and opportunities.

 

In the end, does THERE even exist at all or is it just a state of mind, a utopia?