HINTERLANDS
A mixed-reality dance work for headsets on the speculative future of evolution being
human, digital and extremophile.
Inspired by microorganisms called extremophiles that live on the edge of habitability, in some of earth’s most inhospitable environments, Hinterlands is a mixed reality headset experience about the speculative futures of human evolution.
Movement, spatial sound and augmented reality come together to create aspace that unfolds differently for you and the dancers.
Through an invitation to move, you will explore our entanglement with the natural and digital world and
our possibilities for surviving, evolving and becoming.
Wearing a headset you will see both the real world around you and a mixed reality (MR) layer. At certain points, the dancers' movements will move and affect the MR layers through the use of a motion capture suit.
One dancer and three audience members navigate this space through a structured improvisational score.
What has been created is a three-part experience over 23 minutes that considers how extending participants' kinaesthetic and spatial awareness in MR heightens senses and possibly
connection to self, others and environment.
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TOUR
The work has toured internationally, presenting at such places as
Art*VR (Prague, Czech Republic)
Digital Body Festival (London, UK)
Embodied Realms (Poznań, Poland)
Athens Digital Arts Festival (Athens, Greece)
Istanbul Digital Arts Festival (Istanbul, Turkey)
Keha 1:2:1 Festival (Oulu, Finland)
Dreamy Place Festival at South East Dance (Brighton, UK)
CREDITS
Direction and Choreography
Rebecca Evans
Lead Creative Technologist
Clemence Debaig of Unwired Studio
Animation and VFX
Alexander MacKinnon
Creative Technologists
Rebecca Evans
Jon Higgins
Sound Artist
Christian Duka
Dramaturg
Joanne Skapinker
Intimacy and Consent Coordination
Mira Loew
Original Dancers
Ania Varez
Jan-Ming Lee
Anna Kaszuba
Mentoring and support
Alexander Whitely and Naomi Smyth
Image on page by Mira Loew
Video by Alice Underwood