Simon Speiser

Touching Clouds

This project is both an augmented reality piece and a choreographic installation: in a sufficiently empty room, headsets are offered to the audience individually. Those who choose to put on a headset see the space and the people around them augmented with virtual, floating stones and leaves that react in different ways to touch and movement. The exploration of the virtual space also leads them through the real space: a choreography is created.

Piña, Why is the Sky Blue?

'Piña, Why is the Sky Blue?' brings us into multiple futures, where technologies have been re-routed to create a spiritual guide steeped in matrilineal knowledge. Here, we learn that Piña is a digital vessel who lives in the distant future and uploads, stores and shares the familial knowledge, dreams and desires transmitted to them from the past. Messengers from various realms and places around the world use digitally altered pineapple fabric to upload their data for the deity, who lives to receive, care for and disseminate the information for its continued preservation.