Corpoirreality

Nadezhda Bey, 2021

VR
Corpoirreality is an oxymoron formed from two English words: corporeality (in Latin, corpus means body and realis is material) and irreal (surreal, unreal). Together they form corporeal irreality.
The fluidity of the body in the digital world is explored in this work. Existing in several genres at once, the work can unfold as a performance when the artist interacts with a person and captures their body with lines in virtual space, or it may be a VR scene where the viewer is among the prints of other people. Can you feel how the virtual is trying to absorb the physical and vice versa?
Take the headset and raise it to your eyes. If there is no image, press the button on the right side of the headset to wake it up. Put on the headset and hold out your hands in front of you. They should be illuminated white. A white line will appear in the center of your palms, which mimics all the movements of your hands. Explore the space around you.
Nadezhda
Bey
Media artist, graduate and teacher of the art and science master’s program at ITMO University. She is a winner of the ASTA Award and the Sergei Kuryokhin Award for the Best Media Object. The artist is popularizing VR and has presented her projects and performances for the Russian Museum, the New Stage of the Alexandrinsky Theater, and major technology companies.