> Chapter 01 – #PostBody 

Concept

The arrival in our lives of new-technology devices such as the smartphone has led us to see, use, and extend our bodies in totally new ways.  The first chapter focuses on how VR gives us a new experience, implying new and quite different ergonomics. It allows the visitor to explore the way VR breaks down real-world limitations and offers new forms of enjoyment,   demonstrating and exploiting our body’s ability to adapt to new complexities, and to develop and practise the new skills needed to navigate the VR environment. The experience will help visitors to have a new consciousness of their own body and physical and mental capacities. 

Experience 

After emerging from a dense thicket, phone in hand, the visitor’s virtual path meanders through a cavern-like space with living walls presenting body parts in bizarre, disorienting juxtapositions. The walls have random holes through which the visitor discovers videos collected from Instagram, referring to the post-body age from diverse viewpoints: biotechnology, animatronics, life sciences, performance art… The virtual phone in the user’s hand reproduces, as they advance, the content they are investigating. A tunnel lined with a hallucinogenic array of selfies and avatars, modified with filters, represents new ways of presenting the self. This slowly emerges into a dystopian wilderness, under the stars, with a multi-screen performance referencing the self-destructive dangers of new technologies.