Expanding Dreamscapes

Solo Exhibition

Flutgraben, Berlin and VRChat

June - July 2022

Katharina Haverich, Lucas Kuster, Expanding Dreamscapes, Artist, Berlin

About

"Expanding Dreamscapes" centered on 18 motifs drawn from over two years of activity in social VR platforms. Based on video stills and screenshots enhanced for print, the images were produced as 18 x 1,000 postcards and as acrylic glass works in three formats (200 x 112,5 cm, 120 x 67,5 cm, 70 x 39,4 cm). The project translated fleeting moments from virtual environments into physical objects and circulating images.

 

 

The same motifs were also exhibited inside the virtual world dreams about girls, presented on two Meta Quest 2 headsets. Looped video excerpts showed the moving-image sources of the stills, drawn from Virtuelle Bandenbildung  (for Radikale Töchter), Virtual Club of Dangerous Women and virtual expeditions with unreal.theater among others.

Exhibitions

Virtual world, selected prints, and videos at "Collective World Building - Art in the Metaverse"

Hek Basel, Switzerland (2023)



Artist Statement

"Expanding Dreamscapes was important to me because it emerged from a persistent desire to find visual and spatial forms capable of communicating the intensity, complexity, and emotional reality of what happens inside virtual worlds to those who have never experienced them."

Katharina Haverich

Press / Discussion

Team

Katharina Haverich - Artist

Dr. Roman Miletitch - Technological Artist

Dr. Lucas Kuster - Art Direction

Julian Kamphausen - Digital Dramaturg

Michael Hoppe - Sound

Sophie Messerschmidt - Editor

Maren Möhlenkamp - Artistic Assistance

Ymusic GmbH - Producer

Thank you

Alexander Pohnert, Schulz und Schulz

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