Invisible Cities: <OPIM / ㅇ ㅗ ㅍ ㅣ ㅁ > is a transdisciplinary collaborative mixed reality using motion capture technology. Initially showcased as a live performance, it is an artistic experiment that allows both artists and viewers to overcome spatial and temporal boundaries through merge of the real and virtual.

The project was organized to have artists of different genres (a writer, a media artist, a composer, and a choreographer) come together in a fashion similar to the surrealist game of “exquisite corpse” allowing for each contribution to overlap those of others’ rather than adhering to an unidirectional output. Created against the backdrop of the turbulent socio-economic landscape during the COVID-19 pandemic, the surreal landscape of <OPIM> attempts to open up a new psychical horizon about a new world to come. It is a journey onto the alien nebula “Aldalbach” in the collaborator Sim Na-wool’s story, Virtual Love, a virtual city built upon a phantasm beyond the graspable reality which unfolds in the work. <OPIM> is a virtual world that consists of imaginary subsistence.