Institute History
Description
This piece is housed at New Frontier at The Ray. To find time slots and purchase tickets beginning January 16, click here.
For the Amazonian Yawanawá, “medicine” has the power to transport you in a vision to a place you have never been. Hushuhu, the first woman shaman of the Yawanawá, uses VR as medicine to open a portal to another way of knowing. Awavena is a collaboration between a community and an artist, melding cutting edge technology and transcendent experience so that a vision can be shared, and a story can be told of a people ascending from the edge of extinction.
— S.F.
Screening Details
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