Slava Ukraini meditates on the disruption to Ukrainian culture and sovereignty caused by the 2022 full scale Russian invasion. Traditional embroidery is streamed as the visual focus, while spatialized recordings of battle threaten to disrupt this ancient folk tradition, itself a form of cultural memory and storytelling. The VR experience reorients the typical expectations of immersion in which the user has ultimate control.
By disrupting VR’s 360-degree field of vision, “Slava Ukraini” appears connected to the viewer’s perspective, ensuring that, regardless of where one looks, the translucent video appears squarely in the immersant’s line of sight—a way to re-assert that the stream of Ukrainian tradition will prevail despite the disruption and threat of erasure posed by war.
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