Alternate Realities Programme
Alternate Realities combines advances in technology with creativity and imagination to find new ways of exploring non-fiction.
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Nocturnes
Every night we fall asleep. The ‘story of us’ dissolves away. These new musical works explore the idea of self-disintegration.
  • Jad Abumrad
  • 2022
  • Alternate Realities Programme
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On the Morning You Wake (To the End of The World)
Through the voices of people who experienced the 2018 ballistic missile alert in Hawai’i, this VR experience explores the real and imminent threat of nuclear weapons.
  • Mike Brett, Arnaud Colinart, Steve Jamison, Pierre Zandrowicz
  • 2022
  • Alternate Realities Programme
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OnlyBans
A digital game that critically examines the online policing of sex workers and marginalised bodies.
  • Lena Chen
  • 2021
  • Alternate Realities Programme
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Out of Body Experience
Ukrainian artist collective Photinus Studio created an online performance where all participants become one malleable body and documented it in video.
  • Photinus Studio
  • 2022
  • Alternate Realities Programme
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Ravi and Emma
A world-first webdoc experience that celebrates diversity and inclusiveness through humour and a unique take on love.
  • Kylie Boltin, Ella Rubeli
  • 2021
  • Alternate Realities Programme
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Recharge
An interactive installation where your phone will only charge when your eyes are closed. Charge your phone while charging yourself.
  • Dries Depoorter
  • 2022
  • Alternate Realities Programme
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A Rest Guide for a Tired Nigerian Artist
This selection of printed guides and podcasts asks what happens when we shift attention from the artwork to the people for whom art is their work?
  • Rahima Gambo, Innocent Ekejuiba
  • 2021
  • Alternate Realities Programme
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ROZSYPNE
A VR piece set in east Ukraine in 2014, where war raged - elderly Nina tries to preserve her everyday life in her small village, Rozspyne.
  • Nienke Huitenga, Lisa Weeda
  • 2019
  • Alternate Realities Programme
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Safe Space
A film illustrating the digital and physical resistance of ballroom cultures over the last thirty years showing their plight and resilience.
  • Mirelle Borra
  • 2021
  • Alternate Realities Programme
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Santa Barbara
Inspired by the artist’s mother, who travelled to the US in search of the American Dream, this single-screen work is an exploration of sacrifice and aspiration.
  • Diana Markosian
  • 2020
  • Alternate Realities Programme
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The Sound Voice Project

A unique performance installation exploring powerful stories of voice loss and identity that features immersive, surround-sound and audio-visual settings.

  • Hannah Conway
  • 2021
  • Alternate Realities Programme
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The Tell Tale Rooms
Enter The Tell Tale Rooms, a 360 VR experience and installation that leads you on a journey into the fantastical world of artist Eden Kötting.
  • andrew kotting, Eden Kötting
  • 2022
  • Alternate Realities Programme
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A TikTok War
From sheltering in bunkers to travelling across Europe as refugees, TikTok has been appropriated to chronicle and explain the horror of the Ukraine war.
  • 2022
  • Alternate Realities Programme
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