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Mammary Mountain
Director:
Tara Baoth Mooney, Camille Baker & Maf’j Alvarez
Running Time:
23
Year:
2024
Country:
United Kingdom and Ireland
Project type:
Virtual Reality
Description:
Mammary Mountain is an intimate performative VR experience that explores “dis-ease” within the body through the experience of breast cancer. This new interactive experience tells the stories of patient healthcare struggles, particularly on the hidden experiences of breast cancer treatment. Not appropriate for under 13 years olds.
This artwork is presented through a combination of interactive VR art installation and creative methodologies, audiences will partake in the stories of survivors, the treatments, and the often unspoken effects of the journey. Audiences are led through a visual and sound experience which has interwoven excerpts from survivors stories.
Credits
Camille Baker: Concept, story collection & editing narrative development, installation and performance design, Executive Producer.
Tara Baoth Mooney: Creative co-direction, writing, music composition & sound design, original stories & illustrations, garment co-design.
Maf’j Alvarez: Creative co-direction, immersive experience design, visual & technical art & animation, unity VR development & production.
Bios:
Tara Baoth Mooney is an interdisciplinary artist whose work responds to events past and present that explore lived experience and the inter-relationship of people with daily ritual, plants, nonhuman life forms and objects within their respective ecologies and practice.
Camille Baker is a maker of participatory performance and immersive artworks, through expressive non-verbal communication, extended embodiment and presence in real, mixed reality and interactive artworks, using XR, haptics, wearable devices and mobile media.
Maf’j Alvarez is a digital media artist and creative technologist living in Brighton, UK. Her work focuses on ecology, cultural and gender diversity in relation to open access to technology. She also works as a user experience designer on large-scale digital transformation projects for government services.
