Virtual Ritual
Virtual Ritual
Virtual Ritual
Virtual Ritual
Virtual Ritual
Virtual Ritual
Virtual Ritual

Virtual Ritual

English friendly
Entry
CZK 250
Venue's website
Language
English friendly
Author
Jan Mocek

An original gaming performance takes its viewers to the parallel world of online video games.

It is an exploration of a digital society which is formed by millions of people around the world who log into the vast gaming worlds every day. The virtual spaces offer its users endless possibilities to enjoy themselves without the constraints of harsh reality. But every game has its rules. Urbanist Osamu Okamura, Atlet the YouTuber, photographer and gamer Adéla Vosičková and a virtual avatar – four performers will form an expert gaming panel to unpack hidden mechanisms, prototypes, rituals, that shape seemingly weightlessness world of online video games. What norms, rules and codes are allowed to surpass in virtual space? And in reality? What role does the gaming principles play in society? By means of original use of a live video, 3D animations and YouTube formats, the performance unveils hidden links between real and virtual living spaces set at the backdrop of fast growing gaming industry changing the ways how reality is understood.

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