GENERATOR #2: Paula Strunden. Infra-thin Magick

In Paula Strunden’s extended-reality installation Infra-thin Magick, visitors engage in practices not altogether unlike a rite of passage to enter a fantastical and surreal world between physical and virtual reality.

The immersive experience enables them to interact with a series of hybrid objects, the so-called infra-thin instruments. These objects can, and are meant to be, touched, but they can be seen and grasped in their entirety only in the digital space. That makes them mediators between tactile and visual perception, between reality and the imagination. The concept of the “infra-thin” was coined by Marcel Duchamp. It appears in an unpublished 46-page manuscript in which Duchamp examines an evanescent interval between two things or objects that eludes scientific study. His examples include the warmth of a chair seat that someone sat on only moments ago and the difference between two objects cast in the same mold. It forms the basis for these invisible and overlooked dimensions extending beyond the manifest and measurable.

In the XR installation, those dimensions serve to let the visitors experience the inexplicable interstice, the invisible layers between physical and virtual reality, encouraging a probing reflection on the perception of spatial reality.

Book your immersive experience!

Slots for participation in the immersive sessions, which are guided by a ritual leader, are limited. Booking for the extended-reality experience will be available shortly!*

*Participation is included in the museum admission.