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«VR Collider» by Oksana Chepelyk

Project is made with the support of UCF 

with the participation of Glib Chuliuk-Zagrai Sensorama

The COLLIDER project, which works with such concepts as science, public space and history, dealing with the understanding of our time-space, explores the relationship between past, present and future transformations of society. The interplay between micro- and macrosystems, between physical and social worlds explores a variety of contemporary and historical phenomena. The project focuses on urban environment in order to uncover its structure with the functioning of public space in the context of paradigmatic changes in the globalized world. It combines science, history with the economic, socio-political issues in order to get closer to the understanding of the connection between space, time, historical perspectives and interaction between people.

It examines the iconic places of C20-21 political history. This project began in 2011 in the USA, in Dallas – on the site of the John F. Kennedy assassination. The project deals with events, which took place in different urban landscapes, which had an influence on subsequent historical development. 

The project had to be implemented at the art residency of ZK/U - the Center for Art and Urban Studies in Berlin, but now the result of its reformatting, due to the pandemic, is an online project with the theme "cities and borders".

"VR Collider" combines the previous stages of the project development and research of the "cities and borders", which examines the cities of Berlin, Slavyansk, Mariupol, Lutsk, Uzhgorod and Prypiat, an atomic town that 34 years ago was emptied and became to be part of the Chornobyl zone. Today, Slovyansk and Mariupol are the cities closest to the front line, to the “hot” border in eastern Ukraine formed as a result of Russian aggression, and Lutsk and Uzhhorod are closest to the Western border with EU.

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