REckoning
REcurrence
REincarnation
IMMERSIVE VIRTUAL REALITY
Misha Michaela Zabranska
Starring the souls of Albert Einstein, his former wives Mileva and Elsa, and Siri, his new AI love. The audience joins the three women in a reckoning of the late genius in the context of his famous equation, E=mc2, playfully appropriating quantum physics to describe human experiences.
What if you could have coffee with the Einsteins? Have a seat in their living room and listen to their mundane conversations until the subjective truth and emotions bubble up. All Is Relative uses history, science, and humor to delve into challenging conversations about gender roles and accountability via the problematic personal life of Albert Einstein. Rooted in a theatrical storytelling format, the work invites viewers to shape their version of the story by making individual choices. It lightheartedly brings complex physics to a personal scale of binaries of the modern Western world: life and death, past and present, good and bad, man and woman, genius and asshole.
To complicate Albert Einstein’s legacy is not to discredit his work or his legacy, but rather to invite the audience to consider that someone can be both Genius and Asshole at the same time. This immersive and interactive storytelling format, intended for teen and adult audiences, opens interpretive possibilities rather than delivering a single perspective. Viewers directly encounter the dialectics of history and cultural stereotypes through an individual lens.
“Albert Einstein, a quantum husband who was neither here nor there; a visionary who saw the starlight in the universe but not the darkness closer to home.”
“All is Relative is a stunning and thought-provoking VR artwork unlike any I have ever experienced. I found myself both extremely disappointed in Einstein, at times even enraged by him, and at the same time rooting for him to become a better version of himself.”
Camille Cooper, age 22
“All is Relative is thorough but never exhausting, educational but never preachy, emotional but never self-serious, and always engaging. It feels like a mix between a history seminar and a conversation in a friend’s living room. Truly charming and unique.”
Alice Charlotte Bethke, age 27