Welcome to “Fluxusopolis” – city of change, where nothing ever stays the same. Buildings are built up, shops shut down, and people come and go. But: Change is not only unavoidable, it is a chance, too.
“Change is our life force, and without it we cease to exist. The key is deciding where we want to go,” says Dana Melaver, who began curating DOK Neuland this year. “We must learn to become a force for change ourselves.”
DOK Neuland (29 Oct–3 Nov) invites you to become part of the change – at least virtually. A total of eleven works from the (parallel) universe VR, AR, 360°-film, game, installation and participatory film will be shown free of charge during the festival week. Works that are constantly evolving, that generate “realities” that are not (or no longer) real, and that challenge our idea of art. Some of the works are vehicles for placing ourselves in other bodies and worlds (“Finally Me”, “Glitchbodies”) or experiencing the world in a non-human way (“Nut Universe”). “Nothing Can Ever Be the Same” invites us to engage with the “imaginations” of a machine that endlessly generates new worlds of images and sounds from Brian Eno's visual archive and music. A work such as “Reconstruction Home” allows realities suffered in the real world to be changed in the virtual world. In it, a house destroyed in the war is reanimated with the memories of its former inhabitants and augmented reality.
DOK Neuland: Interactive Cinema this year will also include a participatory film as part of the exhibition. “Traces of Responsibility” takes viewers to Rwanda, 30 years after the genocide. With the help of an app, the audience will vote at the screening on which narrative threads they wish to follow.
The DOK Neuland exhibition is free of charge. Please note that for Interactive Cinema tickets are required (ticket sale starts on 10 Oct).
Please find the full list of XR works here: List of XR experiences at DOK Neuland
Find more information in our press release.
DOK Exchange XR
DOK Leipzig’s exciting programme on interactive and immersive storytelling with a focus on XR works, DOK Exchange XR is expanding to two full days for the first time, taking place on 31 October and 1 November. Read more about what’s new at DOK Exchange here.
