It is a hybrid installation using performance, media and materiality that welcomes the audience to experience a narrative through different perspectives, depending on the path they follow on the space, similar to what happens simultaneously online. It also entails Wwise, an audio rendering software that works as an add on to Unity, allowing for more auditory sensitivity based on spatial awareness and positioning.
The use of materiality within virtual spaces – and vice versa – is also a topic of the project, using sensors or sensorial triggers through touch, sight and sound. In order to transfer the digital experiences presented in the previous prototypes to a physical space, different kinds of materials, such as holographic screens, meshes, tulle, translucent fabrics and meta.The space is as fluid as the concept, so the flexibility and malleability of the scenography to recreate shapes the opposite of rigid. At the same time, the space is contained within a structured architectural blueprint and intentional placement of stations.
The project’s dramaturgy boils down to the initial concepts of human emotion and identity through them. Recollection of data and real time analytics of what people say they feel can come into play, so that beholding a narrative becomes a sensorial experience of empathy. Multiple possibilities of connection – digitalization as a means of feeling human.
The Feeling is Mutual, first version, was developed at HAU Hebbel am Ufer with the mentorship of DGTL FMNSM in 2020 only as the digital sphere. Following by I FEEL U, research that combines a physical layer to the digital layer of the project, having HAU Hebbel am Ufer as a partner venue and LAKE Studios Berlin as the space for the test-run.
The added physical layer connects both universes, online and on site. The final hybrid version of the project premiered at Schaubude, Berlin in May 2024.
Supported by the
Funding programme for digital development in the cultural sector of Berlin, Germany. (HAU Hebbel am Ufer, 2020)
Fonds Darstellende Künste with funds from the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media (TakeCare), Berlin, German (HAU Hebbel am Ufer & FFT Forum Freies Theater Düsseldorf, 2021)
Fonds Darstellende Künste with funds from the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media (TakeHeart), Berlin, Germany. (HAU Hebbel am Ufer & LAKE Studios Berlin, 2023)
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