“Far from being an active, experiencing subject in dialogue with an artwork that’s meaningfully addressed to you, in the projection room or the VR space you’re in no real sense ‘addressed’ by the ‘work’. You become a passive receptacle for a dazzlingly hollow spectacle.”
From the Back Catalogue: ‘Against Immersion’ – Adam Heardman on the trend for high-tech immersive art experiences
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[image: Agustin Vidal Saavedra, ‘The Summer Palace’, 2023]
