NO PLACE
NO PLACE is a hybrid performance using immersive animation to be installed inside Brighton’s iconic apartment block, Embassy Court, during the White Night Festival. The project is documented on the NO PLACE site.
Inspired by techniques used in neuroscience experiments such as the “rubber hand” illusion, participants wear immersive video headsets and encounter environments that play with their sensations of vertigo and flight. The modernist apartment block is transformed into the setting for an interactive multimedia experience featuring live actors, video headsets and sound design.
Is our sense of self located in the owned body? How do we feel a place to be REAL? NO PLACE – the title a literal translation of Thomas More’s term “utopia” – challenges assumptions about real and possible worlds whilst being a vertiginous, exhilarating and entirely unusual experience for participants.
NO PLACE has been commissioned by White Night Brighton and Hove: a city-wide festival themed on “Utopia” that runs through the night on the 29th October. Development of the project engages with contemporary research into conscious presence, in collaboration with the Sackler Centre for Consciousness Science at the University of Sussex.
For more about the wider research, visit my research page. I’ll be talking about NO PLACE and other artists making work that play with the notion of the self as a virtual model at Warwick’s Virtual Futures conference in June.
Images above created by Kate Genevieve & Abbie Stanton from Chroma Collective.
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