Concept/Script/Direction/Modelling/3D Scans/Production:Isabell Bullerschen
3D Animation: Florian Baumann
Game Design: Sebastiaan Cator
Programming: Arno Justus
Sound: Aske Lyck Pedersen and Paloma López & Leslie García (interspecifics)
Switzerland; 2023
Runtime: 10’
Virtual Reality
An unusual experience awaits recipients: a virtual reality with no digitally-generated content. ipseria and its virtual environment have their origin in the physical realm.
ipseria is/are multifaceted. polyphonic. collaborative. inclusive. queer. ever-evolving. intersectional. As a globally occurring form of life, ipseria exist/s as a mono- or multi-entity association in the mucus of vertebral organisms. Its/their features are akin to atoms, box jelly fish, slime molds, leopard slugs, or social amoebas. However, it/ they possess/es an unique skill: the reproduction beyond its/their species, thus queering the concept of identity and undermining classification systems.
An unusual experience awaits recipients: a virtual reality with no
digitally-generated content. ipseria and its virtual environment have
their origin in the physical realm.
ipseria is/are multifaceted. polyphonic. collaborative. inclusive.
queer. ever-evolving. intersectional. As a globally occurring form of
life, ipseria exist/s as a mono- or multi-entity association in the
mucus of vertebral organisms. Its/their features are akin to atoms, box
jelly fish, slime molds, leopard slugs, or social amoebas. However, it/
they possess/es an unique skill: the reproduction beyond its/their
species, thus queering the concept of identity and undermining
classification systems.
Although ipseria is/are an inherent potential in humans, it/they is/are
being inactivated by rational knowledge systems. Only a sensual
experience can stimulate one own’s ipseria back to life. The multisensory
mixed reality installation enables this encounter where the
recipient transgresses into a virtual reality enhanced by haptic,
olfactory and sound elements. By re-activating one own’s ipseria, the
aim is to reconstitute the ability to imagine life through its richness
of diversity with all peculiarities, fluid definitions and unstable
categories.
Presented at SXSW London by Synthesis Gallery (Berlin).
www.synthesis.gallery · @synthesis.gallery