Blooming Love (2020)

Daniel Hengst

Werkleitz Festival 2021 move to ... © Werkleitz, photo Falk Wenzel
Werkleitz Festival 2021 move to ... © Werkleitz, photo Falk Wenzel
Werkleitz Festival 2021 move to ... © Werkleitz, photo Falk Wenzel
Werkleitz Festival 2021 move to ... © Werkleitz, photo Falk Wenzel
Werkleitz Festival 2021 move to ... © Werkleitz, photo Falk Wenzel

This virtual reality experience is a virtual greenhouse where passionate encounters between plants and humans flourish. Teasing looks begin this ecosexual affair - gases and fluids are exchanged through woundless openings in skin and leaf. Friction, moisture, and heat emerge. Embrace plant species of a Latvian rain moss and breed within yourself new sensualities of unconditional, passionate love for plants - immerse yourself deeper and deeper!

Inspired by the writings and concepts of Canadian anthropologist Natasha Myers, the virtual reality experience seeks to approach new worlds of feeling in a post-Anthropocene era. How can our caring love for the environment, like that of a mother, be transformed into a passionate sexual relationship, like that of a lover?

This virtual reality experience is more of a living sculpture than a computer game. It is a generative surrounding of sounds, digital objects, and recursions that lets your gaze 'interact' with this digital world.

Genre
virtualReality
Arts And Visual Culture
virtuality
Nature And Environment
nature
plant
ecosystem
vegetation