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Artists of the VRHAM! program 2021:
Forest Inhales You (Inka Kendizia), Reeducated (Sam Wolson), Powerline (VOLNA), Aporia (Patricia Detmering), Smallest of Worlds (Bettina Katja Lange), Joan Soler-Adillon, Uwe Brunner , Morphogerador (Matthew Biederman), Sun Within (Vesela Stoneva), Kykeon (Mária Jūdová) and Floralia (Sabrina Ratté)

We don’t have to be close to each other to get closer: Meet the artists of this year’s festival edition in Virtual Reality. For one hour, you’ll have the chance to ask all the burning questions from avatar to avatar. Meet the artists exclusively at their artworks and enter into a direct dialogue with them about their work.

In cooperation with Creative Europe Desk Hamburg

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Annette Mees
Head of The Audience Labs / Royal Opera House, London

András Siebold
Artistic Director / International Summer Festival Kampnagel, Hamburg.

Chiaki Soma
General Producer  & Curator /Toyooka Theater Festival,  Aichi Triennale

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Alexandra Antwi-Boasiako
Communicator & Cultural Manager, Hamburg

What access do theatres, festivals and opera houses have to the immersive media of Virtual, Augmented and Extended Reality?
The global situation over the course of the last year has limited close physical collaboration and prompted a rethink at many institutions of the advantages and possibilities of immersive art. What are the current strategies? How can performative live formats be transferred to virtual spaces? How can we interact with audiences? And what will happen to current practices?

This discussion, with colleagues from various disciplines, will explore how immersive media can be integrated into a variety of programs, what constitutes the live character of virtual performance and whether our current situation has changed any interest in these possibilities.

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Zoe Diakaki, Marina Eleni Mersiadou (Lead Artists, INHIBITION)

Gustavo Gomes (Lead Artist, VOTARY)

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Ulrich Schrauth, Artistic Director VRHAM!

What potential can immersive media offer the performing arts? How can Virtual Reality be integrated into performative processes? What can Augmented Reality mean for a shared experience? Cooperating with Institut für theatrale Zukunftsforschung (ITZ) at Zimmertheater Tübingen, we announced two residencies for European artists to explore these questions as part of our program VRHAM! FORWARD.

The chosen teams are project VOTARY, who engaged with the possibilities of AR in the world of dance during their residency in Tübingen – artistically mentored by choregrapher and Artistic director Richard Siegal, Ballett of Difference, and project INHIBITION, who are researching the interactive possibilities of virtual reality in London. The team was supervised by mentor Tobey Coffey, Head of Digital Development at National Theatre, London

Ulric Schrauth, VRHAM’s Artistic Director will introduce the VOTARY and INHIBITION artists on our virtual stage during the opening weekend. The teams will present their projects, talk about their experiences and offer insights into their work.

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