Artist
Tobias Staab
Tobias Staab is a Berlin-based artist and curator working between contemporary dance, music, film, and digital art. He is artistic director of the International DANCE Festival Munich and co-founder of the DIVE Festival of Immersive Arts. His works are interdisciplinary co-creations with other artists.
Artwork
OYA
OYA is a 13-minute XR / mixed-reality installation by Tobias Staab, created with Brazilian artist, dancer, and ballroom legend Black Pearl de Almeida Lima. Drawing on her lived experience of transition, the work stages a becoming body — continually arriving and receding — as an immersive choreography between death and rebirth. Holographic dance, digital scenography by Warja Rybakova and a sound score by Heiko Tubbesing dissolve the borders between recorded and rendered, remembered and present.
Running Time: 13 Min
Credits:
Main Artists: Tobias Staab, Black Pearl de Almeida Lima, Stefan Göppel (govar)
Artist & Direction: Tobias Staab
Technical Direction & Production: Stefan Göppel (govar)
Performer: Black Pearl de Almeida Lima
3D Design: Warja Rybakova
Music: Heiko Tubbesing
Light Design: Torsten Podraza
Production: govar GmbH — part of the EMIXAR exhibition series, supported by the Berlin Senate
〷◠‿◠〷 This project is part of our festival track "MUNICH Beyond" supported by Film Fernseh Fonds Bayern (FFF).
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