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Warm Worlds and Otherwise
Anna Bunting-Branch
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Credits: Photo by Wilf Speller, courtesy of Wysing Arts Centre.
Credits: Photo by Wilf Speller, courtesy of Wysing Arts Centre.
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Credits: Photo by Wilf Speller, courtesy of Wysing Arts Centre.
Credits: Photo by Wilf Speller, courtesy of Wysing Arts Centre.
This project engages painting, digital animation, and virtual reality to explore ideas of worldbuilding, embodied perception, and technologies of representation.
Central to the project is META, an experimental 360-degree animation that transforms hand-painted scenes and characters into an immersive storyworld. As the viewer is transported between environments—from an unknown planet to a restaurant orbiting in space and beyond—we inhabit the bodies of different human and non-human characters in the narrative. In exhibition, four specially designed viewing stations present META on a series of modified Oculus Go headsets. These interactive painting objects make the SF-inspired images of technology from the animated storyworld manifest in the space of the gallery.
Like an expanded fanfiction, META remixes imagery from the writing of theorists Luce Irigaray and Jakob von Uexküll, the work of painters Maria Lassnig and Maria Sibylla Merian, and SF texts such as Naomi Mitchison's Memoirs of a Spacewoman (1962), Joanna Russ’s Bodies (1984), and Aliette de Bodard's Immersion (2012).
As well as inspiring the visual imagery of these works, these diverse sources provide a starting point for the sonic worlds created by artist Aliyah Hussain for the project. This ambient sound work underscores the viewer’s experience in the gallery space as well as in the virtual environment.
Links: https://annabuntingbranch.com/Warm-Worlds-and-Otherwise
Central to the project is META, an experimental 360-degree animation that transforms hand-painted scenes and characters into an immersive storyworld. As the viewer is transported between environments—from an unknown planet to a restaurant orbiting in space and beyond—we inhabit the bodies of different human and non-human characters in the narrative. In exhibition, four specially designed viewing stations present META on a series of modified Oculus Go headsets. These interactive painting objects make the SF-inspired images of technology from the animated storyworld manifest in the space of the gallery.
Like an expanded fanfiction, META remixes imagery from the writing of theorists Luce Irigaray and Jakob von Uexküll, the work of painters Maria Lassnig and Maria Sibylla Merian, and SF texts such as Naomi Mitchison's Memoirs of a Spacewoman (1962), Joanna Russ’s Bodies (1984), and Aliette de Bodard's Immersion (2012).
As well as inspiring the visual imagery of these works, these diverse sources provide a starting point for the sonic worlds created by artist Aliyah Hussain for the project. This ambient sound work underscores the viewer’s experience in the gallery space as well as in the virtual environment.
Links: https://annabuntingbranch.com/Warm-Worlds-and-Otherwise
Installation with 360-degree video and sound
Story and animation: Anna Bunting-Branch
Sound: Aliyah Hussain
Commissioned by Wysing Arts Centre, The Mechatronic Library, FACT, Liverpool and QUAD
Special thanks to Helen Starr and John Eng Kiet Bloomfield
Warm Worlds and Otherwise was commissioned as part of Worlds Among Us, a collaboration between Wysing Arts Centre, The Mechatronic Library, FACT, Liverpool and QUAD. The project developed from the Worlds Among Us retreat in 2017, which featured contributions from Rebecca Allen, Katriona Beales, Anna Bunting-Branch, Ami Clarke, Sonya Dyer, Candice Jacobs, Wilf Speller, 555-5555, Werkflow, and The Mechatronic Library.
Warm Worlds and Otherwise was supported using public funding by Arts Council England.
Story and animation: Anna Bunting-Branch
Sound: Aliyah Hussain
Commissioned by Wysing Arts Centre, The Mechatronic Library, FACT, Liverpool and QUAD
Special thanks to Helen Starr and John Eng Kiet Bloomfield
Warm Worlds and Otherwise was commissioned as part of Worlds Among Us, a collaboration between Wysing Arts Centre, The Mechatronic Library, FACT, Liverpool and QUAD. The project developed from the Worlds Among Us retreat in 2017, which featured contributions from Rebecca Allen, Katriona Beales, Anna Bunting-Branch, Ami Clarke, Sonya Dyer, Candice Jacobs, Wilf Speller, 555-5555, Werkflow, and The Mechatronic Library.
Warm Worlds and Otherwise was supported using public funding by Arts Council England.
Anna Bunting-Branch (GB) is an artist and researcher based in London. Her work has been presented internationally, including at Bergen Kunsthall, CCA Derry-Londonderry, FACT, Helsinki Contemporary, ICA London, Jerwood Space, and Wysing Arts Centre. She has published work in Fandom as Methodology (2019), Goldsmiths Press (2019), MAP Magazine and Art Licks. Her research has been recognised by Arts Council England Project Grant (2019), AHRC London Arts & Humanities Partnership (2014), Clare Winsten Memorial Award (2011), and Luce Irigaray Circle Karen Burke Memorial Prize (2010).