VR Rose Bond

Earths to Come – Venice Biennale Cinema Immersive Version, 2024, 13’

Immersive/VR works are usually experienced alone in a headset. Earths to Come is a communal experience. Rather than being isolated, audience members in headsets were nested within a 6-meter dome and enveloped by spatialized sounds of the human voice from 16 speakers. The title, Earths to Come, springs from a line from an Emily Dickinson poem cataloged by its first line, “I have no life but this.” In exploring this poem from queer icon Emily Dickinson, collaborators Rose, inti, and Roomful of Teeth created compelling and evocative images and simmering and soaring vocals artfully mixed by Massimilano Borghesi.