We’re hosting our first Odyssey Open House on Sunday, November 2nd, 2025 starting at 11 AM SLT (2PM EST/7PM GMT/8 PM CET).
Join Tina Pearson/Humming Pera and Liz (JE) Solo/lizsolo Mathilde on the Odyssey Simulator as they show and discuss their latest work. The artists will offer a short Artists Talk and Q & A session after the viewings.
SLURLS coming soon.
Hysteria, a new machinima video
by Liz (JE) Solo aka lizsolo Mathilde
Hysteria is a dark and satirical animated short that blends magical realism with real-life experience to explore the medical gaslighting of women in Western healthcare. When Mabel’s treatment is abruptly taken away, her search for relief spirals into the surreal. What begins as a fight for survival turns into an uncanny transformation, as Mabel discovers unexpected superpowers. Created using machinima, Hysteria is a bold critique of how women’s bodies are controlled, questioned, and misunderstood.
Hysteria is adapted from Solo’s short story of the same name. The short story is about to be released in the Second Edition of Solo’s story collection Nature, Human (House of Zolo).
This will be the first showing of the new machinima.
Displaced and Drifting, an audiovisual installation
By Tina Pearson aka Humming Pera
Displaced and Drifting is the reassembly of a mixed reality video (Blood In My Wires, Dust In My Breath), for an interactive 3D world. It is composed of layers of personal and ancestral memory placed within digital and hybrid realities, and plays with the altered sense of time and identity that these realities can foster.
The installation is woven around fragmented stories told from the perspective of a surviving essence after an undefined end-of-human-world scenario. Floating in and out of layered video and audio textures and activated sounding objects, a narrative voice latches onto short moments that first reflect life in an idyllic Polish village, defined by the making of linen cloth from flax; then the uprooting of the narrator’s family to a cattle car that ultimately brings them to a World War II concentration camp; and finally through scattered memories to an unknown future semi-existence.
Displaced and Drifting features imagery filmed and/or photographed by Kirk Schwartz, Dan Kaunisviita, Liz Solo and Lyssa Pearson. Its soundworld includes segments performed by the Avatar Orchestra Metaverse and the late composer Pauline Oliveros.
This will be a first look at this installation.