Immersive Performance

In a reimagined version co-commissioned by 14-18 NOW: WW1 Centenary Art Commissions, THESE ROOMS shared its focus between the civilians of North King Street and the men of the South Staffordshire Regiment who committed the massacre – their identities largely anonymous, their actions controversially exonerated at a military enquiry. Created by two of Ireland’s most original companies, this fearless and embodied physical performance shed new light on a long-forgotten but pivotal moment in British-Irish relations.

Enter, sit down, and please welcome to the stage… The Invisible Man. 
Listen as he teaches you how to disappear…

Now that you know the secret… what are you going to do with this remarkable talent?Can you resist the temptation to wreak havoc on the unsuspecting people around you… After all, if you can’t be seen, how can you be held responsible for all the terrible things you might choose to do? 

Paar is a VR dance film split between a physical and virtual world. Filmed in the historic GDR-era Tieranatomisches Theater (TAT) at Berlin Charité hospital, Paar uses 360 video together with motion capture technology to follow a journey of discovery between linked bodies and theaters.

Planet Xerilia is an audio-driven, narrative, room-scale Virtual Reality (VR) experience for the Meta Quest 2. XR Stories and the University of York developed it to investigate new ways of storytelling using 3D binaural audio, interactivity, and VR.

‘The Neon Pack’ is a ‘Protopian Tale’ directed by Nick Bax. This immersive 360 experience by Human Studio interprets three scenes from the original short story by Nick Bax, featuring VR design and animation by Dan Fleetwood with additional design by Michaela White and an original soundtrack by 96 Back on CPU Records. 

Flood is a groundbreaking 45-minute location-based XR drama for up to 8 audience members. It’s a dark, foreboding, cinematic experience, set during and after an apocalyptic climate event, which confronts audiences with a bold and visceral vision of what happens when land turns to water. Audiences are dropped into a beautifully bleak virtual world where they have to work together with the cast to find dry land.

Three women. Three voices. The northern landscape.

Three stories open the world of the English northern landscape in virtual reality, what it means to come from it, live in it and belong to it.

Monoliths interweaves radiant renderings of three northern UK environments – a moor, a city and a coast – with sweeping soundscapes and poetic monologues by Hannah Davies, Carmen Marcus and Asma Elbadawi. At once imaginative and immersive, this XR experience is an arresting testament to the inextricable link between person and place.

Two of Ireland’s leading theatre companies – ANU Productions and Landmark – collaborated for the first time, to present a hugely ambitious co-production that plots a singular path through one of the most secretive, contentious and turbulent times in Irish history.

The Changing Same: An American Pilgrimage is an immersive, episodic virtual reality experience where participants travel through time and space to witness the connected historical experiences of racial injustice in the United States.

Alone we are born,
and alone we come into the world, When we die, alone we pass away.

For no one shares our fate, and none our suffering.

So what are they to me,
such ‘friends’ and all their hindrances?.”

ーThe Larger Sutra on Amitāyus

Artist Lu Yang reincarnated as “Doku” into a digital parallel universe. Without the constraints of time and space, being free from the shackles of physical needs and identity, Doku is born to explore the secret of human mind and the intention of the universe.