2025, Phantom Dining — BiOVE

Participant wearing a VR headset at BiOVE’s Phantom Dining (2025), an XR installation with sculptural dining tables and interactive objects

Overview

BiOVE’s Phantom Dining (2025) is an eXtended Reality (XR) participatory installation. Wearing VR headsets, participants move through five stages of dining preparation centred on physical tables and objects. The tables are filled with ingredients that appear alive yet are not, alongside utensils designed for direct interaction.

At each stage participants gradually transform into “phantom animals”—human, yet not entirely human. These phantom sensations make dining unfamiliar and reveal the concealed dynamics of ingestion and consumption. Where physical and virtual realities coexist, the boundary between eater and eaten becomes unstable, exposing entanglements among life, appetite, and desire.

Details

  • Media: XR installation—HMD VR, video, repurposed fabric and stainless-steel tables, 3D-printed objects, artificial plants
  • Direction: Inhwa Yeom
  • Narrative design: Inhwa Yeom, Yiwen Tseng, Minseok Choi
  • Installation and object design: Minseok Choi, Yiwen Tseng
  • XR development: Inhwa Yeom, with Seogsung Jang
  • Support: Paradise Cultural Foundation

Exhibitions

2025 — Paradise Art Lab Festival, Hana Bank Art Storage (H.ART1), Seoul
2025 — China · Hangzhou Biennale of Art & Technology, Yuhang Museum, Hangzhou
2025 — Sense of Future, Goyang Cultural Foundation, Goyang

바이오브(BiOVE)의 〈환상식탁〉(2025)은 확장현실(XR) 기반 관객참여형 설치 작품이다. 관객은 VR 헤드셋을 착용한 뒤 실물 식탁과 사물을 중심으로 다섯 단계의 식사 준비 과정을 거친다. 식탁은 생물인 듯 생물 아닌 식재료와 특수 제작 식기구로 채워져 있다.

각 단계에서 사물과 상호작용하는 관객은 점차 ‘환상 동물’로 변신한다. 인간인 듯 인간 아닌 존재의 감각은 일상적인 식사를 낯설게 만들고 섭취와 소비의 이면을 드러낸다. 현실과 가상이 공존하는 환상식탁에서 먹는 자와 먹히는 자의 경계는 모호해지고, 생명과 욕망을 둘러싼 복잡한 관계망이 나타난다.

Published by Inhwa

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