Exclusive vr performance talk Polymorf in Forum Groningen
Noorderlicht Festival and Forum Groningen will present a number of special programs in the coming weeks about the influence of new technologies on our perception of reality. Very special is the exclusive VR performance talk 'Symbiosis' by design collective Polymorf on Sunday 29 August.
SYMBIOSIS
The VR installation ‘Symbiosis’ by the Dutch experience design collective Polymorf is a multi-sensory experience in which humans, animals and technology merge through spoken word, performance, virtual reality, food design, smell and soft robotics. In the installation, you can assume a post- or even non-human reality: a symbiotic human-animal or human-technology relationship. The work is inspired by the work of the American feminist sociologist Donna J. Haraway (1944). In her book Staying With The Trouble (2016), she outlines provocative ways to redesign our relationship with the earth and its inhabitants. Haraway argues for other social power structures, in which relationships between humans and animals are completely redesigned.
On the occasion of the Noorderlicht Festival 2021, Polymorf will give an exclusive performance talk about the development of ‘Symbiosis’, which will premiere in November at IDFA Doclab.