Laurie Anderson at The Factory Groundbreaking photo: Tarnish Vision
50 years after the Apollo Moon landings, artist Laurie Anderson will be flying audiences there with the UK premiere of her virtual reality work, To the Moon, developed with the artist Hsin-Chien Huang.
Using images and tropes from Greek mythology, literature, science, sci-fi space movies and politics, To the Moon creates an imaginary and dark new moon. During the 15-minute VR experience, the viewer is shot out from earth, walks on the surface of the moon, glides through space debris, flies through DNA skeletons and is lifted up the side and then thrown off a lunar mountain.