Artistic Partnerships
Mammary Mountain Immersion Experience:
Mammary Mountain is an intimate performative VR experience that explores “dis-ease” within the body through the experience of breast cancer. This new interactive experience tells the stories of patient healthcare struggles, particularly on the hidden experiences of breast cancer treatment. This project was presented in Paisley in the Piazza Shopping Centre on the 24th to 27th April 2024 in partnership with Neon Digital Arts Dundee.
It tells the lesser told stories not only of survival, but of trauma from the life changing experience of (Breast) Cancer through a haptic garment, so audience members/ visitors can feel vibration in the area of the lymph nodes where breast cancer grows. This work is not only for breast cancer patients and survivors but more so for family, friends and those with no experience of cancer in their own lives to have more empathy and care for those who do around them.
The piece is explored through animated illustrations, poetry, personal stories of 8 participants, with field recordings by Tara Baoth Mooney, while she was going through cancer treatment herself. These sounds and the drawings have been brought to life through the strong visual 3D landscape and evocative animation created by Maf’j Alvarez using VR.
Artistic Team:
Tara Baoth Mooney – Illustrations, poetry, singing, soundscapes and music composition, workshop development and community outreach, grant writing, personal story contribution, garment design direction, chair project management.
Camille Baker – Concept and ideation, research grant writing, community outreach, workshop development, narrative framework, content development and story editing, staging and promotion, as well as overall project production.
Maf’j Alvarez – 3D Artwork, virtual reality artistry, visual design, interaction design and chair design.
For more information see: https://mammary-vr.art/
