VIVE Arts Renews Its Presence at Art Basel in Basel

Following two presentations at Art Basel Hong Kong as a VR Partner, this June VIVE Arts debuts at Art Basel in Basel with two VR works from renowned artists Albert Oehlen and Wu Tsang. VIVE Arts will be showcasing these two works in a dedicated lounge located in Hall 1 of Messe Basel.

Albert Oehlen is one of the most important and innovative artists who has been deconstructing the medium of painting from the 1980s to the present. Oehlen’s VR work, entitled Basement Drawing, captures artist’s avatar creating an ink drawing in his Pasadena basement studio. In this piece, the artist demystifies himself by revealing his avatar at work. He closes the gap between himself and the viewer, as well as reality and fiction. Basement Drawing is curated by Hans Ulrich Obrist, Artistic Director, Serpentine, and developed by MacInnes Studios.

Following her acclaimed commission Of Whales for the Venice Biennale, multimedia artist and performer Wu Tsang presents A mighty mass emerges, a 15 minute VR work displayed on VIVE Flow VR glasses that is born from the same subject matter as Of Whales: Herman Melville’s Moby Dick. The viewer is able to experience the underwater world from a whale’s perspective. Tsang harnesses the power of XR technologies to create a novel world in which her storytelling power is optimized to its most mesmerizing potential.

Images credits:
VR still, A mighty mass emerges, Wu Tsang, 2022, courtesy of artist and VIVE Arts
VR still, Basement Drawing, Albert Oehlen, courtesy of artist, VIVE Arts and MacInnes Studio

Production credits:
A mighty mass emerges, Wu Tsang, 2022
Duration: 13 minutes
Composers - Asma Maroof and Daniel Pineda
Horns - Tapiwa Svosve, Jalalu-Kalvert Nelson, Miao Zhao
Creative Technologist - Ferdinand Dervieux
3D Artist - Aby Batti
Sky Box - Daniel Balage
Lead VFX Artist & additional modeling  - Alexandra Radulescu 
VFX Artist - Camille Petit
Sound Design - Nicolas Bredin
Music Mix and Adaptation - Dave Rife and Gabe Liberti
360° video adaptation - Small by MacGuff 
Vincent Gutman, Marine Le Borgne, Florient Salabert
Produced by ATLAS V - Arnaud Colinart
Virtual Production by ALBYONWith support from VIVE Arts, VIA Art Fund, Galerie Isabella Bortolozzi, Berlin, Antenna Space, Shanghai, Cabinet, London, LUMA Foundation

Basement Drawing, Albert Oehlen, 2020
MacInnes Studios: 
Producer / Director - John MacInnes 
Technical Director - Richard Hirata 
Character Artist - Lukas Hajka 
Twitter - @MacinnesStudios 
Instagram - @macinnesstudios 
Albert Oehlen - music 
Scanning - Human Engine 
Vasken Bohossian - CEO 
Paul del Campo - Project Manager 
Andy Malipot - 3D artist 
Instagram - @humanengine3D 
Motion Capture - Artanim Mocap, Switzerland 
Sylvain Chagué - Co-founder, Technology Director 
Valérie Juillard - 3D Animator  
Caecilia Charbonnier - Co-founder, Research Director 
Twitter - @artanim_mocap 
Manu Weiss - technical support, Switzerland 
Vince Argentine - motion capture consultant 

VIVE Arts: 
Producer - Xinran Yuan 
Director of VIVE Arts - Celina Yeh