Atomu
Out-of-competition
Information
[FR] Vous êtes autour d’un arbre sacré, centre cyclique d'une légende de la tribu kenyane Kikuyu qui raconte que si l’on marche sept fois autour de l’arbre, l’homme peut devenir une femme et la femme devenir un homme.
[EN] People gather around a sacred tree - the cyclical center of a Kenyan Kikuyu tribal myth - where if one walks around the tree seven times, a man may become a woman and a woman may become a man.
Premiere status
French Premiere
Exhibition location(s)
Patio niveau -3, Canopée (Westfield Forum des Halles)
Lead artist(s)
Shariffa Ali, Yetunde Dada
Name(s) of producer(s)
Atlas V, France TV (FR), Electric South (ZA), POV Spark (US), Dimension (GB)
Main cast
Ira Mandela Siobhan, Sonya Cullingford
Artwork category
Fiction
Technologies used
Virtual Reality6DoFInteractivity
Thema
AfricanExperimentalInteractiveSociety/PoliticalFeminism
Estimated duration (minutes)
10
Release date
2020
Language(s)
English
Subtitles
None