INTER/her

Thu Feb 02 2023 at 05:30 pm to 06:10 pm

The Hub | London

Peckham Digital CIC
Publisher/HostPeckham Digital CIC
INTER\/her
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Experience a sensory and emotional journey with INTER/her
About this Event

INTER/her: intimate journey inside the female body is an immersive installation and Virtual Reality artwork, focussed on the reproductive diseases that women, and those with a female reproductive systems, face after 30 years of age, such as: endometriosis, fibroids, polyps, Ovarian and other cysts, as well as more severe cervical, ovarian, uterine and endometrial cancers.


The sensory and emotional journey moves visitors from the outside in within a real space or "Sitting Womb", into VR space, with a spatialised audio soundscape featuring the voices and stories of women recounting their experiences, making it an intimate, emotional and possibly haunting experience.


The experience is made embodied by an accompanying vibration belt or "haptic corset", that provides visceral and responsive sensation on the lower abdomen, in the approximate locations where the various diseases occur inside the body.


INTER/her has been shortlisted for the 2021 Lumen Prize -3D/Interactive Award https://www.lumenprize.com/2021-3d/interactive-shortlist


“We need more work like this telling women’s stories...Fantastic.” - Visitor feedback


“My first experience of VR and I loved it!” - Visitor feedback


The work has been developed by a primarily all-woman team: Interaction designer Maf’j Alverez collaborated with Baker to design the overall environment and interaction, VR concept artist Sarah Büttner designed the story objects in the visual environment. Fashion designer Bushra Burge designed the fashion dimension of the haptic corset and the initial haptic interaction design, and sound artist/composer, Kat Austen, designed the sound experience. The project benefitted in the last leg of the project with wireless electronics in corset from Paul Hayes, and programming support from Andy Baker (coding headset to electronics interaction).


“I found the experience quite moving. It’s the fist time a digital artwork has had this effect on me.” - Visitor feedback


Baker has said: “The INTER/her project comes directly from my own experience in fighting – and winning – against ovarian cancer throughout 2016 and 2017. This intense battle gave me the imperative to make something personal through my art practice; to give something back to other women, based upon my own experiences and journey through the healthcare system.“ The ideas and development of the work emanate from experiencing women’s silence, conflicting information, and inconsistencies in support for women’s health.


The metaphor of journeying into the body echoes the experience of journeying through the system designed to provide healthcare. Employing a haptic belt worn by each viewer, sensations are felt on the body, which are triggered by the stories that play through the surround-sound audio inside the installation, which takes the form of a bespoke domed tent in the centre of the gallery space. Through this transference of physical sensation, viewers can share in an experience of the body that may resonate with theirs, or with the experiences of women they know.



Visitors can share their personal experiences afterwards and record them if they wish.


Project website https://inter-her.art

Please ensure you arrive within 5 minutes of your booking slot otherwise it will be given to someone else.

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Event Venue & Nearby Stays

The Hub, 42 Bonar Road, London, United Kingdom

Tickets

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