QUEUE invites the audience to playfully explore and question possibilities for action and cooperation. During theatre opening hours, QUEUE can be visited as an individual experience with limited exit options.
A person sat in front of a computer.
A person sat in front of a computer.
Extended Reality as Part of Utopie 1 at the Theater an der Ruhr
QUEUE: A Playful XR Experience
Theater an der Ruhr, 2:00 PM
Sunday, Nov 30, 2025
With QUEUE, the collective OBLIQUE SENSATIONS has developed a participatory XR experience for multiple players. The starting point is Samuel Beckett's prose text ‘The Lost Ones,’ which describes an enigmatic world in which everything revolves around endless queuing. In QUEUE, this is condensed into a virtual landscape that is both a game and an echo of a decaying reality. Six people can enter simultaneously with VR headsets and take on the role of avatars trapped in an oversized, eerie cylinder. What is real and what is a memory of a vanished past remains unclear. Individually, in pairs or in groups, different ways of leaving the cylinder can be tried out – if it can be left at all. QUEUE combines elements of a multiplayer game with the atmosphere of a radio play, a drone concert and an immersive environment. The result is a space in which the audience can playfully question possibilities for action, cooperation and the logic of hybrid environments.
Boundaries are dissolved, habits of thought and perception are challenged. The works in the art exhibition range from spatial, sound and VR installations to an XR multiplayer game.
Experience the experience with expanded escape options in a group of up to six people!
Who?
OBLIQUE SENSATIONS is a Berlin-based label for media art, performance and sound art, as well as experimental music theatre. Under the artistic direction of Christoph Wirth, interdisciplinary works are created in different partnerships at the interface between analogue and digital, scenic, social and virtual space. OBLIQUE SENSATIONS develops immersive XR and VR experiences as well as hybrid performative installations, interactive sound installations, staged concerts and concept art pieces for stage and exhibition contexts. A particular thematic focus is placed on the examination of technological history, politics of perception and attention, and forms of collectivity and affect.
Sarah Buser (creative coding), Fehime Seven (lead developer), Markus Wagner (XR spatial design, look design, creative coding), Christoph Wirth (concept and art direction, look and sound design).
Where can I find more information and how can I participate?
Book your space by emailing tickets@theateranderruhr.de.
For more information visit https://www.theater-an-der-ruhr.de/de/programm/inseln/8056.
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A person wearing a VR headset, moving their arms.
A person wearing headphones and editing the sound on a computer.
