Shared Realities

The Shared Realities consortium launches a living lab to explore and develop collective immersive experiences and a physical and sustainable exhibition culture for emerging forms of immersive art. The consortium focuses on exploring and researching collective immersive storytelling, strengthening the ecosystem for co-production and distribution, and engaging audiences through shared experiences. Makers, producers, curators, distributors and researchers work together to further develop an emerging practice and generate knowledge through an interconnected process. The activities are organised around overlapping trajectories – 'creation and prototyping', 'reflection and interpretation', 'documentation and dissemination' – and develop applicable knowledge, stimulate sustainable exhibition practices and increase the international recognition of Dutch immersive artists (artists who are part of the consortium and artists selected through an open call). The trajectories are staged in the run-up to the annual International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam.