
A virtual universe from body fragments
“Can we imagine the universe from which we ourselves come as something physical, but at the same time as something virtual?”
To portray the social circumstances of our contemporary society, characterized by a hybrid state of physicality and virtuality, choreographer Howool Baek combines body movement with technology.
In “BETWEEN_in VR”, an imaginary and deeply ‘immersive’ universe emerges in which our body parts such as the hands, feet or navel lead us into an unfamiliar world.
Using the overwhelming 360° VR spatial experience, we discover a new type of in-between space that merges the solid boundaries between the physical and the virtual, the body and the data, the analog and the digital, and the viewer and the performer.




Project Type
VR film, VR installation
Duration
00:19:30
Completion date
28.07.2023
Award
2023 Best Virtual Reality / Digital Media Fest Rome, Italy
Country of origin
Germany, South Korea
Presentation
05.2025 A MAZE Festival / Berlin, Germany
04.2025 Tanzmainz Festival – Moovy Tanzfilmfestival Interactive Exhibition / Mainz, Germany
11.2024 Rencontres Internationales Paris Berlin / Paris, France
11.2024 International Media Festival / Wales, UK
10.2024 FIVARS / Toronto, Canada
03.2024 Moovy Tanzfilm Festival / Cologne, Germany
03.2024 Tricky Woman Tricky Realities / Vienna, Austria
01.2024 tanz:digital Watch-Explore-Connect / Berlin, Germany
12.2023 Digital Media Fest / Rome, Italy
11.2023 TANZAHOi / Hamburg, Germany
06.2023 DOCK Digital / Berlin, Germany – world premiere
11.2022 Prototype Pitching / ARKO Art & Tech Salon / Seoul, Korea
11.2022 Prototype Presentation / @music for-rest / Seoul, Korea
Direction & Choreography
_ Howool Baek
Virtual Reality Production
_ VOBE / Christoph Vogel & Michael Bertram
Sound Creation & Design
_ Matthias Erian
Pre-production 3D Modeling & Animation
_ EMP Emotion Capture
3rd eye
_ Jin Lee
Description Text
_ Okju Son
Trailer
_ Yoann Trellu
Poster Graphic Design
_ Philipp Carbotta
Press & PR
_ Räy Lee
Pre-production
_ Jinyoung Shin
Production Management
_ Mario Stumpfe
Produced by Howool Baek BODIES.DIGITAL
Pre-production Supported by
2022 ARKO Art & Tech
Production Funded by
the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media in the NEUSTART KULTUR program, assistance program tanz:digital of the Dachverband Tanz Deutschland.














