2024 Venice Film Festival / Venice Immersive - In Competition
2024 Geneva International Film Festival / Highlights
2023 Kaohsiung Film Festival / XR Spotlight
“Free UR Head” is a public participatory choreography project, using custom developed real-time XR technology. It started with the idea to bring people together and play with VR technology, making it more accessible and public. What if we can conduct the heads of the VR audience into a choreography?
We invite you to join and participate in an unprecedented collective large scale immersive performance. Seated with VR headsets you will “perform” into an impromptu unrehearsed choreography. The experience will take place in the presence of audiences there on purpose or passing by who can enjoy the choreography taking shape in real time.
“Free UR Head” is an open, multi-layered performance experience. Audiences can choose to participate either as VR participants or as external spectators. Those reserving a VR slot will enter a virtual world, where their head movements—guided by a dancer and synchronized with the music—co-create a unique real-time choreography. In this way, the VR participant becomes part of the performance, blurring the boundary between “seeing” and “being seen.”
At the same time, external spectators are an integral part of the experience. Without the need for reservation, they observe from the outside, offering a panoramic perspective that frames the VR participants as performers—completing the circle of interaction.
By playing around with collective movement using virtual reality, “Free UR Head” questions and explores the boundaries of conducted collective movement and behavior in a mutual relationship with digital technology.
