Kunst & Kultur
XR Artworks from TAIWAN @ MUNICH BEYOND 2025
We are honored that Taiwan’s Ministry of Culture supports Munich Beyond with five excellent XR artworks from Taiwan for the XR exhibition.
We thank the Ministry for this support, the Representation of Taipeh in Berlin and Munich for the very good cooperation and TAICCA for enabling the contacts to the artists. Here we present the artworks and their creators in detail:
Free UR Head
Very Theatre
Free UR Head is a public participatory choreography project, using custom developed real-time XR technology. It started with the idea to bring people together and play with VR technology, making it more accessible and public. What if we can conduct the heads of the VR audience into a choreography?
We invite you to join and participate in an unprecedented collective large scale immersive performance. Seated with VR headsets you will “perform” into an impromptu unrehearsed choreography. The experience will take place in the presence of audiences there on purpose or passing by who can enjoy the choreography taking shape in real time.
By playing around with collective movement using virtual reality, Free UR Head questions and explores the boundaries of conducted collective movement and behavior in a mutual relationship with digital technology.
Come twice: book your slot for a headset and also join as a spectator!
Here you can have a look behind the scenes – but we recommend to watch the video after you participated in the experience!
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A Simple Silence
Craig Quintero – Riverbed Theatre Company
“A Simple Silence” wraps up Craig Quintero’s Trilogy exploring spatial transformations & immersive encounters. It seems like such an easy request: a simple silence. A stillness without the weight of work or love or death. A moment in between. But we have learned there is an almost impossible gap between this ambition and the reality of living, that our silence is never simple. In the flickering light, we hold our breaths, anticipating the storm. Something must be lost before it can be found.
A Simple Silence is the final chapter in Riverbed Theatre’s award-winning “Just For You” Trilogy that premiered in Venice in 2022 with All That Remains and continued in 2023 with Over the Rainbow. This new 360VR experience continues the series’ exploration of our connectedness to the world around us, imbuing the environment with an animistic quality while also blurring the boundary between seeing and being seen. The audience is not a witness to the experience; they are the experience. A Simple Silence confronts us with the uneasiness of our inevitable truths, that every beginning implies an ending, that we are shadows passing through the darkness.
Mirror
De-Chuen Wu & Yi-Ping Cheng
Life is a show. By a colossal sculpture of the nature creation, a motherless tin boy sits boredly on a toilet, catching a glimpse of his father engaging in sordid affairs with other women. The story tells about three tin toys, revolving around three generations, each bearing a resemblance to one another, as they inevitably confront family conflicts.
Among them, the male members are rushed by the relentless time, growing into the „adults“ they once despised, as if trapped in a mirror reflection, unable to break themselves free. Deeply controlled in their roles, they forget their own expressions and movements, losing their own shadows beneath their feet and the images in the mirror. They are unaware of being entangled in the control of whose dreams, memories, or ideals. In the end, they only faintly remember the gentleness that once existed in the image of their mothers.
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The Man Who Couldn’t Leave
Chen Singing
Within the walls of the former Green Island prison, political detainee A-Kuen, tells the stories of imprisonment and persecution happened in the 1950s in Taipei. Among fellow inmates, frozen in time, he recounts his own experiences and those of his friend, A-Ching, who never made it out.
Experience the time and place, and the waiting, in hope, for a chance to keep the stories alive. The Man Who Couldn’t Leave integrates the stories of numerous political victims of the White Terror and told through the form of an undelivered family letter. An immersive VR experience of hope, fear and camaraderie.
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Limbophobia
Wen-Yee Hsieh & Sebox Hong
Limbophobia opens with a dramatic quote from the book Will Grayson, Will Grayson: “I am constantly torn between killing myself and killing everyone around me.” This spiritual crisis in a dark border region forms the introduction to Wen-Yee Hsieh’s misty nocturnal world in which visitors finds themselves in twilight zones of existential terror. The powerful black and white graphics making up this hallucinatory world blur the boundaries between the real and the digital, the solid and the ephemeral, the eternal and the temporary. What starts as a glance through a misty window on a storm-swept beach turns into a wild ride into increasingly unstable realities rocked by explosions and collapsing buildings. All this is accompanied by music that sounds like the slow breath of the collective unconscious.
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