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THE LACUNA SHIFTS by DEPART

Mirror, mirror on the wall …

… where am I in this country? This wonderful world of moving walls seems like a dream to me. I am standing (or floating?) in a poetic, even fantastic playground of my imagination. Everything around me is in the eye of the beholder, but the beholder – is it really me?

I move when I stay. I stay when I move.

I think that I fall, but I do not at all. … do I?

KLANGLICHT 2018

Depart – that’s Leonhard Lass and Gregor Ladenhauf. The artist duo from Vienna specializes in virtual reality installations and works with real-time 3D environments to generate unique VR experiences. As the wearer of the VR headset, you are not only transported into a surreal world of physical and spatial instability, you also interact with what is happening around you. Based on Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, “The Lacuna Shifts” stages a modular dramaturgy in which the observer’s gaze plays a key role. In this way, the virtual experience becomes a changeable stage that never shows the same piece twice in the field of tension between individual perception and acoustic hallucination.