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Through the Chiral Veil is an interactive installation piece through which one navigates various landscapes and communes with the presence of other bodies. Bodies that sometimes inhabit the latent digital memory in the space, and at other times manifest through the physical presence of other beings visiting the room.

Through a sculptural installation with touch-reactive objects and a Virtual Reality component, the piece challenges the boundaries between the physical and the digital, exploring interaction language as a means to convey presences, gestures, and traces left by other bodies. The landscapes that unfold express the emotional and poetic territories inscribed by each artist involved in the project. The audience is invited to traverse them both through direct interaction with the installation in the physical space and through the use of Virtual Reality (VR) goggles, which allow access to an expansion and reconfiguration of the space, as if crossing “to the other side of the veil”. Actions performed in one plane manifest in the other, establishing real-time communication between the bodies inhabiting the physical space and those navigating the virtual universe. The artists propose that each visiting body undertake its own passage, feeling the body and landscape as a single entity and letting their actions reverberate freely and continuously through space-time.

Credits

Artistic Direction
Filipe Baptista, Sara Abrantes

Music, Sound Design, Visual Environment Design and co-creation
Aires, Afonso Arrepia Ferreira, Filipe Baptista, Sara Abrantes

Set Construction, Light Design and co-creation
Gonçalo Alegria

Set Design
Filipe Baptista, Sara Abrantes

Creative Programming and co-creation
Isaque Sanches

Interaction Design, Programming and 3D Visuals
Filipe Baptista

Graphic Design
Sara Abrantes

Head of Production
Mariana Sá Marques

Sculpture
Softrock

Co-Production in Residency
O Espaço do Tempo

Artistic Residency Support
Companhia Olga Roriz, Cão Solteiro . Residências 120

Support
República Portuguesa – Cultura, Juventude e Desporto / Direcção-Geral das Artes, Terceira Pessoa, Colectivo Casa Amarela, Virtuleap

Nemorea is a studio founded recently by Filipe Baptista and Sara Abrantes. The main focus is to produce and publish transmedia projects across different formats, mainly Software, Videogames, Installation Art and Sound. The studio aims to unite creatives from the videogame industry and interactive digital arts world with performative artists, fostering collaboration that bridges different languages and artistic disciplines.

Filipe Baptista & Sara Abrantes / Nemorea (PT)

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