The VR project Olympic Vertigo immerses us in a parallel world that is modelled on the real situation in Munich’s Olympic Park, but expands it both musically and narratively. Visitors are surprised by a peculiar atmosphere and bizarre virtual guests, human-sized praying mantises. Through their movements, the user has the opportunity to explore this animated panorama and five musical time phases from the last five decades.
Olympic Vertigo bears the traits of both a hallucinatory memory and a vision of the future. The history of the Olympia Park resonates within its musical layers, but also as an inexplicable threat. This place is characterised by exuberance at sporting events and concerts, but also by a subliminal fear of a caesura of violence, as it was inscribed in our collective memory by the terrorist attack of 1972.
Biography
M+M has been the name of the artistic film collaboration between Marc Weis and Martin De Mattia since 1994. The duo lives and works in Munich, Germany.
M+M’s artistic focus is on narrative multi-channel film installations that create a completely new sense of time by abandoning linear narration.
These installations have been shown in a number of international exhibitions. The artists are currently working on a macro-3D trilogy in which the protagonists are represented by praying mantises and stick insects.
The German-Luxembourgish duo also initiates cooperative processes and invites artists to respond to current issues. For example, the collective film project ‘The Scorpion’s Sting’ is a reinterpretation of the politically motivated Buñuel film ‘L’Âge d’Or’ (1930).