Experience Ai Weiwei’s first virtual reality artwork, Omni
Ai Weiwei’s first virtual reality video, which you can see here, is called Omni. It fuses together two films the artist has made focusing on the migrant crisis, immersing viewers in the upheaval of displacement and exile for both animals and humans.
The first part of Omni focuses on the elephants of Myanmar.
The second part of Omni drops the viewer into the centre of a migrant camp known as Cox’s Bazaar, in Bangladesh just over the border from the refugees’ home in Myanmar’s Rakhine state, where they have fled persecution, ethnic cleansing and a military crackdown. The work provides a migrants’-eye view of daily activities, such as queuing for supplies, and takes the viewer through the camp, from its tents to its markets and playgrounds.
See the full story here: https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2020/jan/21/experience-ai-weiwei-first-virtual-reality-artwork-omni