LONDON.- Nausea brings together six of today's most exciting contemporary artists to create work in response to the most sophisticated Virtual Reality system currently available. Seven months of collaboration culminated in an exhibition that explores various notions of virtual perception, interaction and aesthetics. Users can navigate new work by Eddie Peake, Florian Meisenberg, Anne de Vries, Ruben Grilo, Jack Strange and Anna K.E. through an innovative system of portals controlled by their actions in real time and space.

The first edition of Nausea premiered in November 2016 at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View and continued at SVVR (Silicon Valley Virtual Reality) in Redwood City. This is the first public exhibition in the UK.

Rubén Grilo
Begin With A Spin, 2016
Rubén Grilo has created an elevator scene that takes direct inspiration from the movie Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Elements of the film are presented in a desolate yet dreamlike fashion, letting you engage with them in an interactive but futile way as the function of the elevator is broken.

Anna K.E.
Corners of Cosmetic Application, 2016
The experience of Anna K.E. is complex, drawing references from the artificial and the natural. A spatial collage of mosaic walls and natural phenomena such as waves and tornadoes deliver disorientating explorations and transformative layers of meaning. Depending on your viewpoint new scenarios are revealed, altering the work via the viewer’s own decisions and perspective.

Florian Meisenberg
Untitled, 2016
In Florian Meisenberg‘s work the user can wipe the opaque windows of a virtual space. Through this action, you uncover a series of existing videos from Meisenberg‘s own collection. Their changing nature and presentation within a virtual room allows for new forms of engagement with Meisenberg‘s work. Emphasising a tension between spatial and temporal relationships already found in much of his audio-visual artwork, this context adds a revealing and dynamic new dimension.

Eddie Peake
Bendyman, 2016
Eddie Peake’s work is an interactive and entertaining encounter based on his copyrighted character ‘Bendyman’. You can watch Bendyman, an amorphous forklike character, perform dance moves as well as interact with him by positioning objects in place of his head. Users can even commit acts of ‘violence’ by playfully throwing Bendyman or an assortment of items across infinite space.

Jack Strange
Untitled, 2016
In the world of Jack Strange you encounter four characters who execute repetitive actions such as carrying cartoon faces, running in a hamster wheel and pushing buttons. The space changes between black and white, creating an energetic environment that ultimately reveals an existentialist meaninglessness.

Anne de Vries
Extreme Body Shiftrz, 2016
In this artwork by Anne de Vries the user encounters a human body which morphs into different states of male/female, big/small, fat/thin using the programming tools Mixamo and Fuse. This fluid, digital entity channels pressing questions concerning future visions of the body and identity.

All works created for HTC Vive.

The Nausea VR exhibition is curated and produced by Philip Hausmeier of Metaphysics VR. In collaboration with artists, Metaphysics develop art to be experienced in the medium of Virtual Reality. The content is published in different ways: as physical exhibitions in cooperation with art and tech institutions and online via platforms such as Steam, Viveport and Oculus.

The exhibition is on view at ZAP 41 Dover Street until 10 September 2017.