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Infra-thin Magick

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Paula Strunden

Infra-thin Magick: An Extended Reality Ceremony by Paula Strunden, EXHIBIT Gallery, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna © Maria Belova, 2022

It is well known that spatial perception is multi-sensory, and the interplay of our senses goes beyond the cross-fertilisation of sight, touch, taste, smell, and hearing. Yet architectural design tools only scratch the surface of what we can feel regarding our spatial environments, such as our sense of gravity, balance, and orientation, our ability to feel time passing, or our knowledge of where each of our body parts is without having to look at them. Some of these ‘always-there-but-never-felt’ sensations can be physically experienced when we enter an immersive virtual environment. As our brain adjusts to these novel surroundings, we can suddenly feel our senses at work.

The performative extended reality model, Infra-thin Magick, allows you to experience how such insights can be purposefully evoked by displacing and reassembling the components constituting your multimodal and synaesthetic spatial perception. It invites you to co-create embodied spatiality through active participation and play.

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Paula Strunden is a transdisciplinary artist with an architectural background who studied in Vienna, Paris, and London, and worked at Raumlabor Berlin and Herzog & de Meuron Basel. In 2020, she began her PhD research as part of TACK at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna.

 

This object is part of the TACK Exhibition “Unausgesprochenes Wissen / Unspoken Knowledge / Le (savoir) non-dit”, in the section “Embodiment and Experience”.