Experience The World's Best VR Artwork In Taipei

The acclaimed American artist Laurie Anderson and Taiwanese new media artist Hsin-Chien Huang have joined forces to create La Camera Insabbiata, an eight-room VR experience at Taipei Fine Arts Museum (TFAM) that recently won Best VR Experience Award at the 74th Venice Film Festival.

Virtual Reality has been infiltrating the art experience at galleries and museums for a couple of years. But now, as the technology develops to such a level of sophistication, VR is becoming a permanent fixture in the landscape of art. Anish Kapoor has recently tried his hand at creating his first VR work and the Royal Academy of Arts in London are currently showing a selection of VR works in conjunction with their From Life exhibition.

Expanding on her virtual reality experience, Chalkroom, that is currently on view at Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, the celebrated multi-media artist Laurie Anderson and co-creator Hsin-Chien Huang present La Camera Insabbiata, a multi-sensory experience for four participants.
Inside a black cube that stands at TFAM’s Outdoor Plaza waits a virtual journey in which you will travel through eight rooms, including The Cloud Room, The Anagram Room, The Dog Room, The Water Room, The Sound Room, The Dance Room, The Writing Room, and The Tree Room.

Any sense of reason, spatial awareness and gravitational reality will be lost as you give yourself over completely to the virtual technology.
‘VR offers possibilities for full liberation. “Imagination is the only limitation” ’ said Huang of the work, that although collective in attendance is actually personal, allowing each participant to have an intimate and unique experience.

Aided by VR goggles and control handles, for fifteen minutes you can navigate through condensed and expanded architectural spaces that immerse you in a world of deconstructed words and fractured stories, which is accompanied by an ethereal electronic audio composition, narrated with Anderson’s voice.
Echoing the actual room that Anderson scrawled white chalk drawings onto, you’ll quite literally enter into a universe of transient language where you can create a sculpture and fly as if in a dream.

Be advised, due to the capacity restraints, online booking is essential for the free exhibition. Registration will open every Monday at 10am for the following week. Visitors are to arrive five minutes before their allocated time otherwise they will loose their place.
Laurie Anderson and Hsin-chien Huang: La Camera Insabbiata is at Taipei Fine Arts Museum, No. 181, Section 3, Zhongshan N Rd, Zhongshan District, Taipei City, Taiwan 10461 until February 25, 2018.

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Freire Barnes

Art & Design Editor

Born in the heart of London, Freire's been surrounded by art since childhood. From being mesmerised by Fra Angelico's frescos in Florence to experiencing Dali's Mae West room in Caduceus, Freire's extensive travels instilled a love of the arts. After studying painting she worked for David Bowie's, Bowieart and began to write for the BBC, Bon and Dazed &amp Confused. She curated the Converse x Dazed Emerging Artists Award and was one of the first cohort to graduate from the Royal College of Art's Critical Writing in Art &amp Design MA. When not at an art opening, she's excited to bring her global art discoveries to the Culture Trip's readers.