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Archeology Of A Mother Tongue (Toni Dove y Michael Mackenzie, 1993)

installation,theatricality,virtual

A murder mystery narrated through a 40-minute virtual reality piece, described by its creators as “part film, part performance”. Each participant visits the virtual narration alone to investigate the murder as a forensic scientist.

Each participant accesses the space through a small camera that allows them to capture the space and see it virtualised through a screen, as well as a glove to stop and touch objects. First you visit a dream of the coroner, then a human ribcage as a plane to reach the city where memories of the murdered child are triggered, and the third is a construct of memories in the shape of a hand and skull that can be entered. Touching them amplifies them and accesses a memory of the murdered person, in an allegory of the autopsy.

Premiered in 1993 at the Banff Centre for The Performing Arts and developed as part of the Banff Centre's Art and Virtual Environments Project.

https://tonidove.com/archeology/text/
Dixon, Steve (2007). Digital performance. MIT Press, pp. 367-368.
Participant exploring virtual space.

Source : https://tonidove.com/archeology/images/

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