European Theatre Lab: Stepping in someone else´s shoes

Stepping in someone else’s shoes; The Library of Ourselves: A social VR station for research on empathy through embodied Storytelling. VR experience by BeAnotherLab collective.

 

24.3.2023 from 18.00 to 20.30 in Espronceda, Studio, Carrer D’Espronceda 326 Nave 4,5 & 10, Barcelona, Spain

 

PROGRAM

• Introduction and presentation of the artistic research carried out by BeAnotherLab.
• Virtual reality experience (two participants in each session of 15 minutes. 16 participants in total).
• During the event, participants will be able to learn about the artistic research of the BeAnotherLab collective in order to understand the process of creating and producing this type of experience.
• Subsequently guided and tutored by BeAnotherLab, participants will try to put themselves in the shoes of another person by living a mixed performance experience between real and virtual.

 

INTRODUCING

BeAnotherLab – Interdisciplinary art-science research laboratory dedicated to exploring the relationship between identity and empathy & working on the development of immersive technology systems to generate new modes of storytelling and to experiment with the perception of self and others.

Library of Ourselves – The Library of Ourselves is a system developed by BeAnotherLab. The Library is based on the technology of The Machine To Be Another and enables the creation and experience of immersive and embodied 360° VR FILMS. These VR films allow users to step into the shoes of a storyteller and to experience their narrative from their point of view. Each VR film is a deeply immersive experience of another’s first-person perspective, without losing the quality of embodied tactility for which The Machine is famous.