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Embodying Liberated Landscapes
Embodying Liberated Landscapes
Exploring how immersive technologies and animation can invite audiences to step inside speculative worlds shaped by Queer and Trans Global Majority stories, histories and futurisms. The project explores how experiencing these landscapes might open space for healing, imagination as a tool for reclamation and reconnection with ourselves.
Embodying Liberated Landscapes explores what it means to step into speculative worlds shaped by ancestral presence, queerness, transness and Queer and Trans Global Majority histories. Through this project, I’d like to experiment with animation and immersive technologies to create environments that audiences can truly begin to experience.
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£5,000
Aims of the project
This project explores how visual storytelling, movement, and sensory experience can help bring these inner worlds into a space that can be experienced. For communities whose histories have been suppressed, erased or silenced, experiential imagination is a powerful tool for reclamation and healing.
Through immersive landscapes shaped by liberation, memory, and joy, Embodying Liberated Landscapes asks how technology can be used to hold space for queer and trans futures, offer healing, offer visions for a world that many are dreaming for, worlds that centre belonging, magic, empathy, ancestral presence and liberation.
Meet the artist
Aaran Sian
Lead Artist
they/them
Aaran is an artist working to envision speculative and radical futures that centre the stories and histories of Queer and Trans Global Majority people. Their work tells stories of trans and non-binary characters set within speculative landscapes and cityscapes, shaped by liberation, ancestral memory and the reclamation of space.
There is no separation between the personal and the political in their work, as the identities through which they navigate the world are themselves politicised. They are interested in storytelling and in messy, complicated characters, navigating generational pain and erasure, as well as joy, liberation and love – as these are very human experiences that so many of us carry. Aaran hopes to express how queerness and transness can be seen as ways of imagining more inclusive and decolonial futures beyond systems that have sought to exclude us.
They work across visual art, spatial experiences, community workshops and murals, moving across digital and analogue mediums to create layered and immersive worlds.
