Projects
Built Bodies (Inside)
Built Bodies (Inside)
Built Bodies (Inside) is an exploratory project, building up to an immersive installation about queer, regenerative futures.
Built Bodies (Inside) is an exploratory project, building up to an immersive installation about queer, regenerative futures. This first stage of the project will document play with immersive technologies, technical skills development, and immersive arts research. In preparation for Built Bodies (Inside), I developed a prototype of how speculative fiction and geographical information systems might interact in an immersive installation. This project expands on my prototype, envisaging an immersive installation where participants influence the direction of the artwork.
At its core, Built Bodies (Inside) is about kinship and the commons. The narrative is not locked: participant interaction with more-than-human kin and the built environment changes pathways toward just, diverse, and regenerative futures. Speculative fiction and immersive design meet on the inside of this imaginary, to envision the future-tense flourishing of queer bodies.
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£5,000
Aims of the Project
This funding will support my first-time exploration of immersive technologies; support basic technical skills development through software, tools, and training acquisition; and fund time to plan and research technologies for my project.
This supports my vision for an immersive installation for green, queer futures.
Meet the artist
Adelheid Bjornlie
Lead Artist
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Adelheid (they/she) is a creative practitioner and writer whose work foregrounds environmental futures and more-than-human kinships through speculative design and fiction.
They completed their MSc in Narrative Futures: Art, Data, Society at The University of Edinburgh. She has presented at various conferences, including the Hyperdigital Designs Conference at the University of Cambridge and the Encounters Postgraduate Conference at the University of Glasgow. Their creative practice is driven by a desire to co-create pathways toward regenerative futures that include queer, disabled people like themself.
