Create Reality: A VR Showcase

Create Reality is a showcase of performance and visual art in Virtual Reality worlds.

Create Reality is a VR showcase of performance and visual art created by 3 local artists. During the performance we will take you on a guided tour of their otherworldly digital realms. Natasha Ruwona - dwelling on a sanctuarydwelling on a sanctuary is an underwater sensorial experience grounded in speculation about underwater worlds. It is informed by research into Drexciya, the Zimbabwean water spirit (Njuzu) and traditional healer (N’anga). The Njuzu are said to pull their subjects underwater, returning them to dry land equipped with the healing powers of a N’anga. The work places the viewer into this world to explore it’s objects and writings and consider methods towards healing through the body. Ashanti Harris - Black Gold: The MasqueradeOn the 20th May 2015, Exxonmobil - one of the world's largest international oil and gas companies - announced the discovery of oil in Guyana. On the 15th March 2019, Georgetown, the capital city of Guyana, was twinned with Aberdeen. From the violence of colonialism and the transatlantic slave trade, to the industrial mining of minerals extracted from the land, to oil production offshore, Black Gold explores the complex relationships between Guyana and Scotland alongside Guyana’s long relationship with violent forms of extraction. Using an autobiographical approach, Black Gold is a visual, kinaesthetic and sonic procession into the centre of the Earth. You are invited to join the masquerade and move through layers of thoughts, memories, oral histories, field recordings and choreographic directions, travelling backwards to a place of Black Gold.Purina Alpha - JinhwaJinhwa (Korean meaning ‘evolution’) is a four-part representation of Purina Alpha’s personal evolution, a debut digital performance work which reflects an exciting moment in her artistic development. A dance autobiography, Jinhwa journeys through Purina Alpha's unique performance practice bringing together drag lipsync and choreography influenced by contemporary, hip-hop and African dance, as well as the ballroom artform of vogue. The performance project is being made in collaboration with filmmaker Tiu Makkonen.Jinhwa was originally supported through a //BUZZCUT// Club Residency in 2020 and will be developed to completion through 2021/22. The 1st part of Jinhwa will be exhibited as part of Create Reality. This part is a vulnerable performance symbolic of processing and releasing trauma, involving both contemporary dance and lipsync performance. Part 1 comes with a trigger warning of mild symbolic reference to SA.

AccessCreate Reality is a showcase based in the virtual reality platform Mozilla Hubs. Joining instructions will be given on booking a ticket. This is an experimental project and we are looking at ways in which virtual reality can better support those with additional support needs. If you have access requirements please get in touch and we will discuss how we can best support you to access the event.We can also provide support for WiFi, devices and data.Please get in touch for further details.

About the ArtistsNatasha RuwonaNatasha Thembiso Ruwona is a Scottish-Zimbabwean artist, researcher and programmer. They are interested in Afrofuturist storytelling through the poetics of the landscape, working across various media including; digital performance, film, DJing and writing. Their current project Black Geographies, Ecologies and Spatial Practice is an exploration of space, place and the climate as related to Black identities and histories. Ashanti HarrisAshanti Harris is a multi-disciplinary artist and researcher based in Glasgow. Working with dance, performance, facilitation, film, installation and writing, Ashanti’s work disrupts historical narratives and reimagines them from a Caribbean diasporic perspective. As part of her creative practice, she is co-director of the dance company Project X - platforming dance of the African and Caribbean diaspora in Scotland; and works collaboratively as part of the collective Glasgow Open Dance School (G.O.D.S) – facilitating experimental movement workshops and research groups. She is also lecturer in Contemporary Performance at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland and co-facilitates the British Art Network research group The Re-Action of Black Performance.Purina AlphaPurina Alpha is a performance and drag artist; with her performances blending the two artforms.  Her dance style is inspired by chiefly by vogue choreography, contemporary and commercial dance, as well as African and Indian dance. Her practice is an exploration of her relationship with both space and her own body, and the balance and synchronicity between the two.Purina Alpha has been creating work for club spaces since 2018, and working in contemporary dance fields since 2020.  Her work is unapologetic in the space it demands as a queer black woman, in both social and professional contexts.3D Artist - Niall Tessier-LavigneNiall Tessier-Lavigne is an artist and game designer based in Glasgow. His work has been shown as part of A MAZE., NowPlayThis, the Smithsonian, V&A Dundee, Feral Vector and other festivals and events around the world.Director - Libby OdaiLibby Odai is a creative technologist based in Glasgow, developing and producing digital sculpture and performance with digital elements. She has previously produced digital works shown at Dancebase Edinburgh, The University of Edinburgh, Plat:form and the Swap Market in Govanhill.

Production Support for this project was provided by ID.Y CICTramway Model provided by Stageport: http://www.stageport.co.uk/Funded through Tramway's Performing Arts Venue Relief Fund

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