6.30pm – 8pm Thursday 15 May 2025 – Friday 23 May 2025
Immersive Visualisation and Simulation Lab, Havers Rd, Norwich NR3 2DU
Explore lost and ever-changing landscapes through this series of immersive performances, as part of the Norfolk and Norwich Festival.
As part of this year’s Norfolk and Norwich Festival, Norwich University of the Arts presents a series of live performances and immersive video installations at our Immersive Visualisation and Simulation Lab (IVSL).
The performances will feature works from An-Ting, Chris Allen, Meitao-Qu, Kate Flurrie, Prof Louis Nixon, Dr Kirk Woolford, Collusion, the Broads Authority, and others, exploring lost and changing landscapes, inaccessible and sensitive sites, and urban memories. The works address social and mental anxiety around climate change by exploring imaginable futures co-created with communities that allow them to see beyond the damage of today and the coming changes.
The IVSL is the first facility of its kind in the UK, and brings together film makers, animators, games designers and visual artists from across the region to communicate and address global challenges. It features a 360º screen, cameras, AI and audio facilities.
Lost Communications 失絡之聲 is an immersive exploration of the light and darkness of nature. Composer An-Ting collected field recordings of birdsong and mixed them with dark experimental electronic music with droning soundscapes and hard beats.
For a live audio-visual performance, An-Ting is joined by Ian Gallagher. Ian uses cutting-edge AI technology to document the duo’s ideas and mind-bending experiences with live audio-reactive visuals for a 360º screen, reacting in real-time to a special spatial mix of An-Ting’s music.
The Lost Communications performance will be preceded by screenings of two short video works by Norwich University of the Arts faculty:
Jinn-Ginnaye, by Dr Kirk Woolford, is an exploration of movement in place. It is a collection of dance pieces exploring issues of bringing western dance performance to the United Arab Emirates, where local modesty laws influence how bodies can be shown in public. Using video compositing, motion capture, and virtual reality techniques, the piece removes the body of the dancer, but leaves behind both the dance and traces of the desert in which it was created.
Sea States is a new multi-screen video installation by Prof Louis Nixon, consisting of 24 CCTV monitors on stands.
Book your placeAtemporal 360 is an immersive live cinema performance created by pioneering arts studio The Light Surgeons in memory of the British novelist, painter, and poet John Berger. It is a poetic audio-visual concert that reflects on Berger’s thoughts and philosophies on time and memory. Specially adapted for the 360º immersive space at IVSL. The performance unites original surround-sound music, documentary film, and video art created by collaborating media artists Tim Cowie and Christopher Thomas Allen.
The Light Surgeons’ performance will be preceded by short works-in-progress screenings from three Norwich University of the Arts-affiliated artists, focusing on the landscapes of East Anglia:
Exploring the decommissioning of offshore platforms in the South North Sea, Meitao Qu will present experimentations with virtual filmmaking in Unreal Engine to consider how these changing landscapes and structures might impact the life of communities along the Norfolk Coast.
Kate Flurrie will present 360º film tests of underwater habitats as part of research exploring the Cromer Shoal Chalk Beds, one of the most ecologically significant Marine Protected Areas for chalk habitats in Europe. Kate is developing an immersive film exploring how through creative technologies, we can better understand fragile ecosystems.
Sea States is a new multi-screen video installation by Prof Louis Nixon, consisting of 24 CCTV monitors on stands.
Book your placeTickets: £10.00
Concessions: 10% off tickets priced £10 or over for D/deaf or disabled, Full-time students, Go 4Less cardholders and Jobseekers
Essential Companions: Any audience member requiring an essential carer/companion can get one free ticket. Relevant discounts or concessions still apply to the paid ticket.
The lab currently supports funded work exploring climate futures, virtual heritage, spatial computing, applied games, leading-edge approaches to virtual production and practice-based technology innovation for cultural organisations.
Immersive Visualisation and Simulation Lab, Havers Rd, Norwich NR3 2DU
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