ESPRONCEDA Institute of Art & Culture on December 4, 2025, from 18:00 to 21:30 presents the IMMENSIVA 2025 Opening Exhibition, the final public showcase of the immersive residency programme IMMENSIVA — XR Social Bricks. With the public opening on December 5, 2025 · 18:00–20:00
The exhibition brings together a series of XR projects developed during the residency, exploring the intersection of extended reality, artificial intelligence, embodiment, interactive storytelling, and collective experience.
IMMENSIVA 2025 reflects on how immersive technologies can reshape perceptions of the human body, identity, and community. Through diverse artistic approaches, the exhibition proposes XR as a tool for critical inquiry, emotional engagement, and shared imagination, positioning immersive media within broader social and cultural contexts.
Opening programme
The opening evening unfolds across multiple moments, inviting audiences to experience the projects in dialogue with one another:
XR Preview: Danses de Llum — 18:00
Danses de Llum XR is an independent immersive project showcased as a special feature of the IMMENSIVA Opening. Designed for audiences of all ages, this augmented-reality experience invites participants to explore Catalan cultural heritage through choreographic interaction. Traditional dances — “sardanes, jotes, and balls de bastons” — are reinterpreted using holographic choreography, adaptive AI, and participatory movement.
The work creates a collective ritual that bridges tradition and innovation, celebrating rhythm, inclusivity, intergenerational exchange, and the vibrant continuity of community through immersive media.
Opening of the IMMENSIVA Exhibition — 19:00–21:30
A public opening will follow on December 5, offering further access to the exhibition and the artists’ work.
About the exhibition
The IMMENSIVA 2025 exhibition showcases immersive works that combine XR environments, performative elements, sound, and AI-driven systems. The selected projects investigate themes such as bodily memory, vulnerability, transformation, liminality, and the relationship between physical and virtual spaces.
Developed within the framework of IMMENSIVA — XR Social Bricks, the works emphasize collaboration, experimentation, and interdisciplinary research, highlighting XR as a medium for social reflection and collective storytelling.
Featured projects & artists
Why does my body keep rooting? — Natalia Cabrera & Simone Garcia
A multi-user XR experience in which visitors embody human–plant hybrid avatars. Stillness causes their bodies to root into the ground, connecting them to the environment and to one another. Movement requires breaking their own roots, revealing tensions between isolation, interdependence, and posthuman identity.
Let Me Feel Your Body — Aida Corcoy & Pia Behmuaras
A mixed-reality installation that exposes the systems of control imposed on the female body. Visitors must mimic fragile glass sculptures to reveal hidden scenes tied to cultural conditioning. Each gesture unveils dual narratives—visibility versus erasure, objectification versus manipulation—turning empathy into a shared physical act and challenging the social gaze.
Horizons of a Labyrinth — Aida Corcoy
An immersive VR journey that turns a labyrinth into a digital art gallery of emotional states inspired by the concept of Samsara. Six rooms—anger, craving, ignorance, doubt, envy, and pride—become spatial metaphors for inner tensions. The labyrinth functions as an emotional map, inviting visitors to navigate their own states of consciousness.
Entremedio — Ailin Bars
An intimate XR experience exploring Transmutation: the process through which inner chaos, trauma, and creative struggle transform into artistic expression. Visitors enter the choreographer–director–flutist’s psyche as a living sensory ecosystem, where grief, paralysis, and memory unfold through XR, spatial sound, and VFX. The room itself breathes and shifts, becoming an extension of the artist’s inner world.
The Bottle You Were Born In / Becoming the Unborn — Vladislav OSSSO
A VR and mixed-reality installation investigating vulnerability and pre-birth identity. Viewers shift between observing an embryo sealed in a 19-liter bottle and inhabiting its perspective through VR. By contrasting technological, corporate, natural, and human viewpoints, the work reveals how external frameworks shape perception and personal identity.
Together, these projects form a multifaceted exploration of immersive creation, offering audiences an embodied encounter with contemporary XR practices and reflecting the depth, rigor, and artistic maturity developed throughout the IMMENSIVA 2025 residency.
You can watch a summary of the day’s events on our YouTube channel, and have a look at the full video of the IMMENSIVA Festival here.
