Shadowtime
Sister Sylvester and Deniz Tortum
A VR Experience on Climate, Technology, and the Illusion of Control (22 min)
“You are in two worlds at the same time.
Your body is in the other world, but your heart is in this one.”
To exist in the virtual world is to have two bodies, four hands and two hearts. Alma, a mysterious guide to this double reality, leads you through questions about the climate crisis, irreconcilable realities, and the virtual as a place to take shelter.
Shadowtime is a new word coined for our age, describing the feeling of occupying two conflicting times at once. It is being stuck in a traffic jam on your way to work and realizing that the gas in your engine is the compressed mass of prehistoric creatures. It is scrolling through your phone and remembering that the earth is changing irrevocably. In Shadowtime, the artists Sister Sylvester and Deniz Tortum allow you to take these temporal incompatibilities and explore them in the realm of virtual reality and simulation theory.