Are You There LUA? Original

“Are You There LUA?” is a playful, combinatory extended reality installation. It offers the users the unique experience of being, though separated by physical distance, simultaneously present and active in the same phygital environment.

The installation develops as a hybrid, interactive open narrative that explores unconventional communication strategies and brings down the walls of distance and isolation in this time of separation and crisis.

The two stations of Barcelona (Espronceda. Institute of Art and Culture in Barcelona and Meet. Digital Culture Center in Milan) will let the participants share the same environmental setting. The users will connect over a non-spoken and non-symbolic way of engagement, using their hand, body, and brain as emitter and receiver. The multi-user experience rejects distance, letting participants connect within a shared network of interwoven dependencies - an environmental system, in which one is continuously perpetuating and reproducing the other.

In collaboration witn Anna Pompermaier and Stefan Maier

Collection Espronceda Instituted (ES)