Alternate Realities Programme
The Alternate Realities programme combines innovative technology with creativity and imagination to find new ways of exploring non-fiction.
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Alternate Realities Exhibition
The Alternate Realities programme combines innovative technology with creativity and imagination to find new ways of exploring non-fiction.
  • Alternate Realities Programme
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Alternate Realities Exhibition: Opening
Come and celebrate the opening of this year’s Alternate Realities exhibition Collateral Echoes, a powerful new immersive work by artist and filmmaker Baff Akoto who will be introducing the event.
  • Alternate Realities Programme
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Alternate Realities VR Cinema
Don't miss our Virtual Reality Cinema. Make sure you visit the SITE Gallery Studio for a cinema experience like no other, and immerse yourself in boundary-pushing stories.
  • Alternate Realities Programme
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Collateral Echoes
An immersive, powerful commemoration of Black and immigrant Britons killed after police contact, blending XR, testimony, and poetry to embody nostalgia, loss, grief and joy.
  • Baff Akoto
  • 2025
  • Alternate Realities Programme
Exhibition
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DOLLHOUSE for Queer Imaginaries
DOLLHOUSE for Queer Imaginaries reimagines home as a playful, shared VR space where queer communities reshape belonging through creativity, care, and collective imagination.
  • Queer.Space / Queer.Space
  • 2024
  • Alternate Realities Programme
Virtual Reality
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Impulse: Playing with Reality
Narrated by Tilda Swinton, Impulse plunges you into the chaotic brilliance of ADHD—where intensity, creativity, and survival collide in a transformative mixed reality experience.
  • May Abdalla / Anagram, Barry Gene Murphy
  • 2024
  • Alternate Realities Programme
Virtual Reality
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Space for Action

An immersive journey into the hidden reality of domestic abuse, giving voice to survivors and the silent systems that failed them.

  • felt Experience and Empathy Lab
  • 2024
  • Alternate Realities Programme
Virtual Reality
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Speechless Witness of a Wandering Tree
A haunting VR journey into state violence in Iran, told through the eyes and memories of a protester deliberately blinded during a demonstration.
  • Aphra Taghizadeh / A Phrasal Image
  • 2024
  • Alternate Realities Programme
Virtual Reality
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Walking Alone, Text You When I'm Home
A visceral 360° journey into the everyday reality of sexual harassment, told through personal stories and hauntingly abstract visuals.
  • Vincent Abert, Jacob Sauermilch, Jannik Eckenstahler
  • 2024
  • Alternate Realities Programme
Virtual Reality

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