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Without resistance, there is no movement. Live showcase of immersive artists that embrace the force of friction in art, technology, personal defiance and disruptive human interactions. From the very personal Dance Permit (denied), in which Claudix Vanesix presents a 360 VR reinterpretation of a traditional Peruvian dance, originally only to be performed by men, to Mariana Luiza’s poetic, counter-colonial answer to Brazil’s racial legacy in the immersive installation Redemption. Where in Going back Home, Mother VR Catalina Alarcón uses VR headsets to transgress the cold unforgiving walls of a Chilean female prison, Traversing the Mist invites audiences to enter a virtual and surreal gay sauna with someone else. Finally, in the interactive web project Offset: The Boiler Room, artists Tega Brain and Sam Lavigne ask us to embrace the awkwardness of cold-calling a CEO’s from poluting companies, in a radical attempt at creating alternative revenue streams for climate action.