The VR Archive for Performance Art

Performance art is ephemeral. To preserve it and make it accessible to a wide audience, we have documented performance art in Virtual Reality from 2016 to 2025. With VR headsets, anyone can now (re)experience the works as if they were there in person.

The VR Archive has visited festivals from Canada to Cameroon, as a pocketsized  performance art festival for an international performance art audience. We have also created new recordings at many of the festivals we visited. The archive contains around 100 international works.

At Grace, April 18th, we are looking forward to presenting the following 8 artists with new works specifically created and performed for the VR media:

Miao Jiaxin (US): 725 Performance. Recorded 2023 in Friisland performance art center, Copenhagen (DK).

Rosie Gibbens (UK): Parabiosis. Recorded 2024 in ARKEN art museum, Copenhagen (DK)

Otmar Wagner (DE/AT): Toys Of Joylessness Or Disturbance & Debility. Recorded 2021 in Friisland performance art center, Copenhagen (DK)

Tom Cassani (UK): Hairpiece. Performance for VR. Recorded 2022 in Aarhus (DK).

Aaron Williamsson (UK): Fake Landart. Recorded 2024 outside Friisland Performance Art Center, Copenhagen (DK)

Teo Ala-Ruona (FI): Lacuna. Recorded 2021 in VEGA music hall, Copenhagen (DK).

Jessie Kleemann (DK/Greenland): Up. Recorded 2024 outside Friisland Performance Art Center, Copenhagen (DK)

Kira O´ Reilly (IR/FI): what if this was the only world she knew III. Recorded 2024 in HUSET theatre, Copenhagen (DK).