The 4th Wall
Teruki Okamoto
Multimedia Performer ｜JAPAN
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The 4th Wall" is a VR film that takes the concept of the "fourth wall" existing in the performing arts as an opportunity to examine the reality of the future.
It has been said that the 4th Wall is the boundary between the artwork (fiction) and reality, and that its presence encourages an immersive viewing experience for the audience.
I like the production in which the "fourth wall" is broken.
When a performer on stage suddenly stares at us, or when the film unexpectedly shows a writing block or a camera.
I feel uneasy as if the ground I believed in is gone, and I feel a sense of relief when I reconnect with a new definition of reality within myself.
I always wonder if this is what "reality" is.
Today, with the development of XR technology, the scheme in which the other side is fiction and this side is reality is no longer valid.
In a world where reality and unreality, and even the division between them, is losing its weight, where is the certain reality that still allows us to feel "I am here"?
CREATOR PROFILE
Teruki Okamoto
Multimedia Performer ｜JAPAN
Winner of the 3rd prize in the International Juggling Competition. He has performed and won many awards in Japan and abroad, performed on a tour of North America and the Edinburgh Festival Fringe Asia Art Award Best Show.
Through juggling, which he has continued since childhood, he became interested in the human body, objects, and the "movement of energy" in the world.
He creates choreographies based on the principles of movement that he has developed independently, and then creates multimedia performance pieces that are further directed with new media arts.
FEATURING WORKS
Fashion, music, film, graphic, illustration, etc.
A group of new cultural experience works created together with artists who can share the realistic feeling of the same era.
