Espace V Underwater

MYRA: A GIFT FOR RYM
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MYRa combines digital underwater worlds with performance art, where viewers remain still amidst a virtual tidal wave. This virtual wave evokes the Caribbean’s complex relationships with water: from geographical dependency to environmental precarity. It is also inspired by the loss of a close friend, suggesting the feeling of being submerged by grief.

	No language
	3'52
	All ages
	2020
	Canada
	360

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Olivia Mc Gilchrist (she / her) is a white French-Jamaican multimedia artist and doctoral candidate exploring how colonial legacies extend their reach to Virtual Reality (VR) technology. She completed a Fine Art Photography MA at London College of Communication (2010) and has since been working primarily with video, multimedia installation and VR since 2015 both as an artist and a consultant on interdisciplinary and performance based projects. She has exhibited in the Caribbean, Europe, South and North America and is pursuing the Individualized PhD at Concordia University (2017-). Her thesis project is entitled “Virtual ISLANDs, hybrid identities in Virtual Reality.”

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