Held in Humans II: Rose in Your Brain
VR installation by Liis Vares and Taavet Jansen
Waiting – that peculiar state of mind in which one has not yet arrived but soon will, in which thoughts flow freely through the body and things surface that one never expected – lies at the heart of “Held in Human II: Rose in Your Brain”
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It is a staged thought journey, a physical reading experience, a choreography of thoughts in 16 minutes. In this audiovisual installation, words and thoughts organize themselves into a mixed-reality space. They move, appear, and disappear as they relate to one another. The piece is literally built from words and thoughts that guide the audience through the work and pass through the body. The audience can interact with the text as it appears, as well as with other viewers at a distance.
The “Meta Quest 3” headsets used in the installation allow participants to see both the real space of our foyer, in which they move, and a corresponding virtual layer: move freely through the space and let your curiosity guide you.
Choreographer Liis Vares and interdisciplinary digital performance artist Taavet Jansen have devoted the past four years to developing hybrid spaces and exploring ways to integrate digital and physical environments. They have pursued this integration in productions such as “Kõik Loeb/The Reader,” “Wolves,” “Where Are You?”, “Memento,” and the performative installation “Held in Human I+II.”
The original English title of the production is “Held in Human II: Rose in Your Brain.” Following its European premiere at the PAD Performing Arts & Digitality Festival in Wiesbaden, its Estonian premiere at the University Library in Tartu, and its run at the HeadRead Literature Festival in Tallinn, the installation is now presented in Nuremberg for the first time in a theatre setting.
AUTHORS: Liis Vares und Taavet Jansen
MIXED REALITY SOLUTIONS: Norbert Pape
SOUND DESIGN: Mihkel Tomberg
GRAPHIC DESIGN: Jaan Evart
SPATIAL DESIGN: Mari Möldre
CAMERA: Alissa Šnaider
PRODUCTION: Anu Almik, elekrton.art
The project was funded by the Estonian Ministry of Culture, the Estonian Cultural Endowment, the City of Tallinn, the Academy for Theatre and Digitality Dortmund, the Estonian Academy of Arts within the framework of the ACuTe project, the Erasmus Programme, the VARES Valga Architecture Residency, and the University of Tartu.
Foto © Alissa Šnaider
