pulp.noir - Close Encounters

VR installation

multi-art collective pulp.noir

Opening: Sun, 17:00 - 22:00
Opening hours: Mon - Sat, 13:00 - 19:00 / Thu & Fri until 21:00 h

By and with
Julia Maria Morf, video & VR design
Raphael Urweider, poetry
Christian Rösli, music
Issue Park, Wellington Gadelha, dance
Wanda Wylowa, Stefan Schönholzer, Diana Rojas, acting

Simon Huber, sound design
Timon Sager, VR coding
Samuel Bienz, 3D engineering
Chris Blaser, volumetric set-up
Melika Afshari, costume design
Thomas Fischer, conception, multi-art composition

Isabelle Vuong, Andre Feitos DeSousa, Jean-Daniel Strub, Csilla Békés, Denise Traber, Emanuel Schäublin, Berthold Vogel, Expert:innenstimmen

Immersive & interactive virtual reality installation
about the meeting of drifting worlds

"Meeting in friendship? How is that possible when incompatible views & worlds stand between us?"- That is the question; and the answer is nowhere in sight. That's why visitors to 'Close Encounters' embark on an immersive & interactive expedition. Equipped with virtual reality goggles, they beam themselves into a parallel universe and explore a world that has similarly deep rifts as ours, but perhaps also a means of bridging them.

The journey leads through a labyrinth of surreal visual & soundscapes populated by dancers & actors (or their three-dimensionally scanned avatars). Here, everyone has a diametrically opposed counterpart, but they still play closely together as a duo by starting with the common points of contact rather than the point of contention.

And because the view through these glasses is quite poetic in view of the violent conflicts in the real world, relevant experts also have their say, shedding light on the topic from a real-life perspective.

pulp.noir is a multi-art collective from Zurich and was founded in 2004 to develop new artistic formats outside of established structures and trends. Since then, the group has been operating at the interface between the arts and dealing with cases of the all-too-human as well as acute socio-political issues. It does so in art spaces, on theatre stages & in music clubs, and since the present day also in the digital space.

40 min. tour incl. check-in & learning how to operate the VR glasses
Spontaneous visits are possible, but free slots cannot always be guaranteed.
Slot reservation at www.pulpnoir.digital/close-encounters

Reserved tickets can be picked up at least 5 minutes before the start of the tour.
Cash payment, TWINT or PayPal