OTHERWORLDS (2024) is a multidimensional participatory performance within virtual and physical realities created by Ukrainian media artist, immersive storyteller and director Sophia Bulgakova. It combines Sophia's artistic research on Ukrainian traditions, pagan rituals, and other surrounding magical practices with contemporary discourse on visual culture and technology.
The pagan research and references here undergo complete abstraction within the aesthetics and composition of the piece, keeping the notions and intentions of the ritualistic practices but creating new visual and experiential language to bring across tools for personal and communal transformation. The project seeks common grounds to revive and reimagine relations and connections to nature, technology, and each other by creating a new, transformative, immersive ritual experience.
OTHERWORLDS is a sensory overload, a unique experience that takes you out of everyday reality. It uses innovative sensorial tools such as abstract colour-based spaces using MR (Mixed Reality) and VR (Virtual Reality) environments, spatial interactive soundscapes, and collective choreographical elements performed by participants. The audience's experience inside the piece is a journey that allows room for change to occur within ourselves.
Credits:
Director & Artist: Sophia Bulgakova
Creative development: Leonardo Scarin & Harm van de Ven
Sound design: Mark IJzerman
Narration: Sophia Bulgakova & Uliana Bun
Scenography: Maarten Keus
Light Design: Nick Mansveld
Choreography: Maria Sartzetaki
Headset mask design: Sasha Popruga & Oleksandr Manukians
Cultural & artistic advisor: German Popov, Maria Saridaki, Mariia Ponomarova
Producer & distributor: Jarl Schulp (FIBER)
OTHERWORLDS is created by Sophia Bulgakova and produced and distributed by FIBER.
We thank the Netherlands Film Fund, Creative Industries Fund NL and iMal for their support in the development of OTHERWORLDS.
Web design, web development:
Trang Ha & Zuzanna Zgierska.
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