Alternate Realities Exhibition

Poetic community voices and soothing acoustics reverberate through Sheffield as we are guided on a meditative journey through the City's green spaces.

This multi-sensorial installation emulates the communicative complexity of bats. Morph into a bat and echolocate through space or sit and feel the vibrations of bat vocalisation.

Stories hold dreams and they also hold memories. Remembering can be an act of rebellion and resistance to forces of erasure. A moving collection of stories from Bedouin women remembering the homes they have been forcibly removed from and the culture they are fighting to preserve.

Encased in a specially-built camera obscura, this piece questions our very desire to escape into virtual, enclosed worlds that only seem divorced from our physical, ecological one.

If the body is an immersive medium then the skin is one of its most powerful tools and the practice of touch is a mode of immersive engagement.