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Immersive Cinematic Art Installation Directed by Laia Cabrera & Isabelle Duverger
Music and Sound Design by Nana Simopoulos and Erica Glyn
Friday, October 13th, 6:00-9:00 PM; October 14th &15th, 12:00-6:00 PM / October 13th Conversation with artists
Qualia: the properties of experience, and experiences, referred to as being phenomenally conscious
"Qualia" is an immersive video and sound installation about our longing for connection to nature through consciousness, awareness, and agency.
“Qualia” is a sensory voyage where the line is blurred between the physical and the digital world, between the real and the imaginary. The gaze is a visual poem, gravitational Qualia: anxiety shaped into Surrealism, a nightmare turned fantasy, spontaneous solidarity, feelings of solitude, suspension, an embrace, the beginning of a smile, a hand holding sand, falling and rising again.
Conceived as an immersive projection mapping design using cinematographic language and interactive dramaturgy, “Qualia” explores concepts of mental states, symbolism, and hope, creating a story that unfolds across a series of immersive scenarios drawing from the body, faces, urban patterns, nature and remains of activity. Underneath these mirrored imageries lie many stories about limits, freedom, and self-perception.
An ordinary tableau becomes a dreamscape; the brain is an airport, a train rail. The mind is a magician, and the body is the self, giving the audience an alternative experience where they are no longer passive spectators and actively enter the very heart of the piece where ‘universal time’ continues to exist in parallel with an inner perception of time — a back door — intimately associated with our sense of personal identity and unshakable condition that the future is still open to our chosen actions.
The brain is an alchemist where memories are the bedrock of consciousness.
The piece uses choreographic language, fragmentation, bioart, color, motion, music, drama, humor, light and darkness to confound expectations, dream-like scenes, and symbolic images, flattening space through animation and abstraction, or heightening the illusion of three dimensions.
The immersive experience - environmental video sculpture - is designed as a large wall with white canvases spread across, seemingly in random positions, creating video spaces. Using the concept of ideasthesia, a bridge that metaphorically links rational abstractions, we open a dialogue between the different film streams - within the canvases and throughout the wall - with an original music score and sound design, extending the installation in time and space.
With the support of the Individual Artist Fellowship program provided by the Jersey City Arts Council and the Jersey City Arts & Culture Trust Fund, and the Jersey City Theater Center
Produced by Laia Cabrera & Co.
Event Location
Jersey City Theater Center
165 Newark Ave, Jersey City, NJ 07302 Entrance from Barrow Street, Jersey City, NJ, 07302