When: June 26th — 30; 11am–7pm; Thursdays until 9pm
Where: 325 Canal Street, New York, NY
Price: Free; parental discretion advised
Tags: #VR, #intimate, #solo, #interactive, #death, #AIDS, #homophobia, #LGBTQ, #ContentAdvisory (see below)
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Queerskins: a love story, the Peabody Futures of Media Award winning VR drama, created by Illya Szilak and Cyril Tsiboulski, will be shown in a site specific installation at 325 Canal Street in New York City, June 26th — June 30th, 2019, in celebration of Pride Month.
In this haptic experience for Oculus Rift with Touch, visitors are seated in the back seat of a photorealistic vintage 1986 Cadillac behind two grieving parents, Ed and Mary-Helen, as they take a magic-realist journey down a country road in rural Missouri. Visitors get to know Sebastian, the son they have lost to AIDS, through the drama unfolding in intimate proximity in the front seat as well as by interacting with artifacts from his life: a collection of personal belongings, photographs, and a diary they find in a box on the seat next to them.
Read our review of this experience.
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Contact Level: None
Content Advisories: Mature themes, AIDS, death, homophobia, etc.
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