The Smallest of Worlds: participation, construction of space and micronarrative in VR-based experimental documentary

Abstract

The Smallest of Worlds – A Social Landscape of Collected Privacy (2021) is a collaborative, immersive, interactive, non-linear documentary project that explores the meaning of private space in times of the pandemic. It is an art project that aims to generate a poetic experience out of a shared narrative through the construction of spaces and narrative units made out of many fragments rooted in real-life experiences. It is a participatory, non-linear interactive piece built out of contributions from around the world, and presented as a site-specific VR installation, an installation based on 3D printed sculptures and their corresponding virtual spaces, and a browser-based online exploratory experience. Three forms that can exist independently but are designed to work in combination.