DOK Exchange XR 2024
Revival Roadshow
(VR 3DoF, Speculative Fiction, New Media Art)
“Revival Roadshow” is a 16-minute VR work critiquing colonial legacies through the resurrection of a 17th-century Dutch explorer in a speculative future. Using interactive audio narration, the work blends surrealism and dark humour to explore myth-making and its impact on culture and identity.
Decolonization, Myth-Making and National Identity, Ethics of Historical Representation, Speculative Fiction, Surrealism and Absurdism, Ethics of Representation, Alternative Futures, AI and Digital Colonialism, Art History and Colonialism.
Project Representatives
Anne Fehres is a visual artist and an audiovisual designer based in the Netherlands. She has a Bachelor’s degree in Audiovisual Arts from the Royal Academy of Fine Arts Ghent. Her interdisciplinary projects take form in photography, sound design, film, textile design and video art installations exploring themes of identity, memory and history. Fehres collaborates with Australian visual artist and sociologist Luke Conroy. Together they engage with social concerns, ecological issues and interdisciplinary innovation. Their work has been awarded and exhibited across Europe, Asia and Australia, supported by organisations including Creative Europe, Mondriaan Fonds, The Creative Industries Fund NL, Netherlands Film Fund, International Film Festival Rotterdam and the Goethe Institut.
Luke Conroy (1990, Tasmania) is an Australian artist, sociologist and educator based in the Netherlands. He graduated from the University of Tasmania with a Bachelor of Arts in 2012, and then went on to study for a Diploma of Teaching and Learning at the Charles Darwin University, specialising in art and media. He frequently collaborates with Dutch audiovisual designer and visual artist Anne Fehres. Together they engage with social concerns, ecological issues and interdisciplinary innovation. Their work has been awarded and exhibited across Europe, Asia and Australia, supported by organisations including Creative Europe, Mondriaan Fonds, The Creative Industries Fund.
Credits
Anne Fehres, Luke Conroy
General Information
Revival Roadshow
Revival Roadshow
The Netherlands
English
Prototype
16 mins
2025
Creative Industries Fund NL, Netherlands Film Fund