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Spring Odyssey VR is part of Elise Morin's Art & Science research project focused on the invisibility of radioactivity and the inaccessibility of bodies in the red forest of Chernobyl, one of the most radioactive areas on the planet. 

It invites you to embrace the surprising experience to caress and dance with an irradiated plant born from the collaboration of Elise Morin and the biologist Jacqui Shykoff: the M_Plant.  As evidenced by the golden spots that dot its foliage resulting from the mutation of its DNA following its exposure in the red forest, its specificity is to make visible the invisible radiations. Using the real and virtual plant as an interface, you are invited to tame high levels of radioactivity by becoming one with the red forest, thus discovering its evolution and specificities. 

Answers to our contemporary questions may lie in this open-air laboratory : How can coexist on a damaged Earth? How can we tame the invisibility of high levels of radioactivity and learn resilience? Resistance to radioactivity is one of the conditions for life in a “Planet B”, should we look to the sky?

Between fragility, strength and resilience, our relationship to this damaged world will be outlined in Spring Odyssey VR through the complicity woven with the plant in order to open a possible way to "live with". It is not a question of denying the ecological catastrophe, far from it, but of rethinking the world starting from all the living organisms, sources of teaching, which co-exist today, whether they are mutant or not, visible or not, without hierarchy. 

The experience can be presented alone or in conjunction with Spring Odyssey VR and Elise Morin’s exhibitions. It is intended to be enriched in the months to come, to become a multi-users experience.