Tamara Shogaolu: Another Dream
Title:
- Another Dream
Artist(s) and People Involved:
Exhibiting Artist(s):
Symposium:
- ISEA2019: 25th International Symposium on Electronic Art
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Venue(s):
Medium:
- HTC Vive, 2D & 3D Virtual Animation
Duration:
- 20-23″
Artist Statement:
Another Dream, a hybrid animated documentary and VR game, brings the gripping, true love story of an Egyptian lesbian couple to life. Faced with a post- revolution backlash against the LGBTQ community, they escape Cairo to seek asylum and acceptance in the Netherlands. An accompanying installation allows audiences to reflect on what they have seen, heard, and felt in VR.
Another Dream is part of Queer in a Time of Forced Migration, an animated transmedia series that follows the stories of LGBTQ refugees from Egypt, Sudan, and Saudi Arabia across continents and cultures — from the 2011 Revolutions in the Middle East and North Africa region to the world today.