Theatre of Inconveniences is an immersive virtual reality experience
that explores the layered complexity of urban spaces, mainly
focusing on the city of Barcelona. In the VR environment, the city
transforms into a speculative stage, where characters, actors, objects,
and fragmented stories all come together, provoking critical
reflection on whether the city is just a backdrop or an active agent in
our daily lives.

The virtual environment utilises 3D scans of facades, shops, squares,
streets, and architecture to identify, narrate, juxtapose, distort, and
reinterpret fragments of the urban fabric and everyday scenes to
create a familiar yet unfamiliar perspective of the city. The urban
elements and the everyday objects coalesce into a new space of
imaginative conflict, consumption, and inconvenience, creating a
unique catalytic environment where reality and illusion intertwine.
Participants transverse from one narrative fragment to another,
building their personal stories as they navigate the virtual space. The
project aims to create a dramaturgic framework where different
urban scenarios, juxtaposed with human activities, habits and rituals
, are perceived simultaneously, positioning the city and the
individual as an actor and the city and the individual as a spectator
on a shared common stage.

By reconstructing an unfamiliar virtual perspective of the city for
those physically located in the same city, TOIC creates a pensive and
metaphysical environment aimed at inducing a state of cognitive
dissonance or elision, wherein a distancing from reality is
paradoxically caused by reality itself.

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Premiered

- Espronceda Institute of Arts and Culture

- ARS Electronica Garden Barcelona

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Collaborators

Nuno De la Serna, Dominik Schwab, Helvijs Savickis, Julia Obleitchner