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Transdisciplinary artist Celine Daemen created a VR world to explore our fleeting relationship with transient reality. As you move through the poetic landscape with VR glasses, you ask yourself: am I part of this world or just looking at it? Are we our bodies or do we merely possess them? As in a dream, one event leads you to another. You follow your own 3D character through narrow alleys, get on the metro and meet a preaching choir parading aimlessly through the streets. In Songs for a Passerby, leave reality behind for a moment and get a new musical dreamscape in its place. Sounds like a tempting offer. Deal?
Celine Daemen’s work is at the intersection of theatre, music, visual arts and technology. After graduating from the Toneelacademie Maastricht, she made several productions in which immersion in both music and a virtual environment is the common thread. Songs for a Passerby won the ‘Venice Immersive Grand Prize’ at the 2023 Venice Film Festival.
The experience is for age 12+
Duration : 25-30 minutes
Direction: Celine Daemen VR art direction: Aron Fels
Music & sound composition: Asa Horvitz
Libretto: Olivier Herter
Sound & mix: Wouter Snoei
Production: Silbersee In co-production with: Studio Nergens, VIA ZUID and Muziekgebouw Productiehuis