PERFORMANCE

DREAMOLOGY

LOCATION

December 15, 2023
Russia, St. Petersburg, The Sergey Kuryokhin Center for Modern Art

TEAM

Daria Zinovieva
Dance artist, choreographer,
dance-dramatist

Alexandr Kozlov
Scenography, video-generative graphics, music

Alexandr Zaripov
Music

Maria Kobyakova
Creation of the world
in the meta-universe, broadcast

Vlada Bulygina
Contemporary dance dancer, performer

TECHNOLOGY

Metaverse, VRChat

Dreamology is a unique project where two worlds intersect — virtuality and reality. The performer experiences the choice to remain a prisoner of his dreams or to awaken. The performance took place in the physical world, and the dancer’s movements were transmitted to the Metaverse on the VRChat platform through sensors.

VJing, music and filming from a real camera were also broadcast into VR so that users were able to see the physical performer.

At the beginning of the event, offline viewers had to choose a white or black stickers. And online users: black or white avatars. This influenced the ending of the performance.

Most chose the dark side. And our main character Daria remained in virtual reality, walking up the digital stairs hand in hand with TurtleQueen, never waking up in reality.