VR experience: 'Stories from my Grandmother's House'
Armenian Institute
1 Onslow Street London EC1N 8AS
Book your 30-minute slot to come and experience a virtual reality work by Madeleine K., Stories from My Grandmother's House, which tells the story of the artist's Armenian and Palestinian family over several centuries.
Growing up in the diaspora, Madeleine has designed this project to experience her heritage as if it were a memory. She has combined archival research and first-person interviews with digital technologies to explore how we can reconnect communities with lost spaces and cultures. How can VR offer us spatial memories of places that are no longer accessible?
Set foot in a room in the artist’s grandmother’s house in Haifa in the 1930s, full of her grandfather’s paintings and decorative elements reconstructed from online and family archives, celebrating the rich cultural heritage of both sides of the family. Through different objects, you will access scenes from the family story, from a shipwreck off the coast of Akka in the 1780s to the adoption of her grandfather in Aleppo during the Armenian Genocide in 1915, through to her grandparents meeting by chance in Palestine in 1932.
Tickets are free for all the volunteers involved with the Heritage of Displacement project, interviewers and interviewees
This event is part of Heritage of Displacement: Oral Histories from the UK Armenian Communities (2023–2026), funded by a National Lottery Heritage Fund grant, thanks to National Lottery players.
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