Speechless Witness of a Wandering Tree aims to emphasise the phenomenon of deliberate blinding as an act of oppression by rulers throughout history in Iran.
Central to the XR installation is a personal audio archive and temporally immersive recreations of the experience of a woman who lost an eye after being struck by police bullets during a demonstration. After much insistence, she managed to recover the metal projectiles that hit her from the hospital.
In symbolic, ritualistic acts, the woman draws her eye on a wall of an underpass, where slogans are repeatedly erased, and in the sand of a desert, where she buries a glass bowl containing the bullets. The boundaries between the audience and the character dissolve in interactive parts, allowing us to flow with her thoughts and vision.
It presents a collection of 360 films and audio records that were recorded during the demonstrations in Iran, and combined with 6DoF (Six Degrees of Freedom) parts. (Trailer)