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THE CONTINUOUS PRESENT WINS BEST ART EXPERIENCE AT RAINDANCE IMMERSIVE 2025!
We’re absolutely thrilled to share that The Continuous Present, an immersive VR art experience created in collaboration by ReVerse Butcher and Kylie Supski, has been awarded Best Art Experience at Raindance Immersive 2025.
For those unfamiliar, Raindance Immersive is the XR/VR/AR arm of the UK’s largest independent film festival, the Raindance Film Festival, founded in 1992. 2025 marks the 10th anniversary of its groundbreaking immersive program — an international showcase of virtual storytelling, performance, and experimental digital art. To be recognised in this space, among such bold and visionary creators, is an honour beyond words.
But what exactly is a VR festival?
Imagine a traditional arts festival — with performers, curators, stage managers, audiences, and artists — then imagine everyone joining remotely via VR headsets from their homes and studios around the world. Welcome to the world of immersive festivals. Attendees log into a virtual environment (in this case, showcased within the VRChat platform), where they can walk through digital galleries, attend live events, interact with performers, and participate in real-time conversations with other audience members — all while embodied experientially as avatars in 3D spaces.
The Continuous Present took nearly eight months to build, using Unity and other VR-Native 3D Modelling and Texturing softwares to create a multi-world experience blending original poetry, sound design, and virtual sculpture. Participants joined from all over the world — the US, the UK, Japan, Germany, France, Canada, Vietnam, and more — for live, guided tours led by ReVerse Butcher. The experience explores themes of love, identity, embodiment, and transformation across four interconnected VR worlds.
Each tour ended with a moving live performance of “Intricate Alphabet,” a spoken word poem performed in real time by Kylie Supski, accompanied by custom visuals and sound. Language accessibility played a huge part in the show’s reach, thanks in large part to our brilliant Japanese translator, Riku_VR, who spent three months of weekends translating experimental poetry into Japanese — a herculean effort that made a meaningful difference for the large Japanese VRChat community.
We also released a free bilingual eBook featuring all of the poems from the show in both English and Japanese, alongside links to videopoem versions of the works for non-VR audiences. It's free to download, and the link can be found at both the top and bottom of this page.
Producing and presenting a live VR show from a home studio in regional Australia meant 3am starts and timezone-defying performances. But none of it would have been possible without the support of an international network of creatives, performers, volunteers, translators, and festival curators — especially Crispy Wisp, who helped manage the virtual crowd during shows, and the extraordinary Raindance team led by Maria, Fangs, Joe Hunting, and Jiyue.
To everyone who attended a tour, translated in real time, helped troubleshoot, or simply wandered the worlds and felt something: thank you. This recognition isn’t just for us — it’s for every artist, performer, and dreamer working at the experimental edges of digital art.
See you in the next world.
With love and creative fire,
ReVerse Butcher & Kylie Supski
ReVerse Butcher & Kylie Supski
Group Raindance Award Ceremony Photo by Kaerun
Photo by Kaerun
Photo by Kaerun
Photo by Kaerun
Kylie Supski performing live in VR
rVb presenting a live guided tour in VR
THE CONTINUOUS PRESENT
Explore Love, Consciousness, Duality and Transformation
Explore Love, Consciousness, Duality and Transformation
Transform your perception with The Continuous Present, a cutting-edge immersive art experience by visionary artist, poet and composer ReVerse Butcher, and poet and performer Kylie Supski. Combining virtual sculpture, original poetry, and music, this immersive exhibition challenges our sense of embodiment, identity, and consciousness through a series of interconnected and interactive art worlds.
For the first time, The Continuous Present will be showcased in its fully realized VR format, offering festivalgoers a guided journey through four thematically connected virtual worlds. Each world invites visitors to explore deeply evocative themes—love, consciousness, duality, and transformation—through an interplay of original poetry, dynamic sound, and striking monumental digital sculptures.
Join artist-led tours to experience all four virtual worlds, followed by Kylie Supski's live poetry with ReVerse Butcher's music, and a Q&A with the artists.
The Continuous Present includes abstract, non-sexualized depictions of nudity and is restricted to audiences aged 18+. While photography is permitted, the artists encourage mindful sharing to maintain the integrity of the experience.
The Continuous Presentは、革新的なアーティスト、詩人、作曲家であるReVerse Butcherと、詩人でありパフォーマーのKylie Supskiによる没入型アート体験です。この展示は、バーチャル・スカルプチャー、オリジナルの詩、音楽を融合し、一連の相互に繋がったインタラクティブなアート・ワールドを通じて、私たちの身体感覚、アイデンティティ、そして意識に問いを投げかけます。
The Continuous Presentは今回初めて、VR上にて完全な形での公開が実現しました。来場者は、テーマ的につながりを持つ4つのバーチャル・ワールドを巡るガイド付きの旅に参加することができます。それぞれのワールドは、オリジナルの詩、ダイナミックなサウンド、印象的な巨大デジタル彫刻の相互作用を体感しながら、「愛」「意識」「二元性」「変容」といった深く心を揺さぶるテーマの探究へと来場者を誘います。
アーティストによるガイド付きツアーに参加して、4つのバーチャル・ワールドすべてを体験しましょう。その後は、Kylie Supskiによる詩の朗読と、ReVerse Butcherによる音楽パフォーマンス、そしてアーティストとのQ&Aセッションが行われます。
「The Continuous Present」には、抽象的で非性的なヌード表現が含まれているため、18歳以上の方のみを対象としています。写真撮影は可能ですが、体験の本質を損なわないよう、共有の際には配慮いただくことをアーティストたちは推奨しています。
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