Boca del Lupo LivePerformance360: VR Salons offer up unique immersive projects from around the world
Surreal taxi rides, a tribute to The Green Book, and more in 360 degrees
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Passenger is a 360-degree stop-motion virtual-reality project from Australia.
From a dreamlike stop-motion taxi ride through the dark to a surreal animated birthday turned upside-down, Boca del Lupo has just announced a range of new virtual reality offerings as it continues its LivePerformance360 series with VR Salons.
Choose from two suites of work from inspirational creators around the world who are innovating with immersive mediums—on view via headsets at Boca del Lupo’s The Fishbowl on Granville Island.
The four projects have been curated with an eye to stimulating the imagination of both audiences and local artists by Sherry J Yoon with consultation by Jo Mangan of Ireland's Performance Corporation.
Suite 1 consists of Australia’s Passenger, a 360-degree stop-motion VR film that tells the story of arriving in a new country to live, and travelling with a fine, feathered taxi driver, himself a migrant; and American-Canadian project Travelling While Black, an immersive VR documentary experience about the risks faced by Black people on road trips in mid-20th-century America, and the safe spaces they found in the famous guideThe Green Book (see teaser below).
Suite 2 features Marco & Polo Go Round (a Canadian-Belgian production), a comedic love story in which a couple confronts the difficulties in their relationship as gravity turns on its head; and U.S.-created Dinner Party, a 3-D virtual reality experience based on the true story of Betty and Barney Hill, an interracial couple who in 1961 reported the first nationally known UFO abduction.
Showtimes are 6 pm (S1), 7 pm (S2), 8 pm (S1), 9 pm (S2) on May 11 to 13, and at 2 pm (S1), 3 pm (S2), 6 pm (S1), 7 pm (S2), 8 pm (S1), 9 pm (S2) on May 14.
Book your spot at The Fishbowl for LivePerformance360: VR Salons here.
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