CHRISTINA MAILE, PENNY JONES, NANCY GABOR, PAUL BINNERTS AND STEPHEN HALL featured in May 16 interactive performance tour at the Metropolitan Museum

Organized with the Metaverses Team artists Justine Williams, Vanessa Gilbert and others, and the Metropolitan Museum’s Media Center, the interactive tour featured prints, paintings, and voices of Westbeth artists.
Tour participants were given interactive Ipads which when placed in front of selected artwork, would show videos or sound collaborations with Westbeth and Metaverses artists.

The tour began in the Great Hall and travelled from Ancient Greek and Roman through Oceania, and African, to the Medieval galleries.

At each stop which was indicated on a map, the participants either heard the voices of Westbeth artists describing their involvement in art , or held up IPads and watched as the pieces in the museum were transformed into pieces by Westbeth artists.

Tour participants given Ipads and earphones

Interactive IPads responding to selected images in the Museum

Interactive IPad showing linking images and soundscape

IPad with interactive image held in front of Museum statue

Video of Christina Maile print as it dresses the statue - a reference to the original painted condition of ancient Greek and Roman statues

Continuation of video

Nancy Gabor and Paul Binnerts voices performing a Medieval story while video of images rotate inside of Madonna statue

Stephen Hall's images of guns surround the armour of Henry VIII

In an area similar to this, the voice of Penny Jones described the contents of her apartment, and her puppets

Image of Dayak Shield from Borneo

Video of Christina Maile's shield prints. Soundscape described ethnographical elements of shield in a very academic voice, which was then contrasted with Maile's family personal recollections of shield