AO ROBERTS | multidisciplinary artist | Canada

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AO ROBERTS

VIRTUAL WORLD + SOUNDTRACK, 2024

YOU WAKE UP IN A HOSPITAL BED

STARING UP AT A STARRY NIGHT SKY

THE HOSPITAL HAS DISAPPEARED

YOUR DOCTORS ARE NOWHERE TO BE FOUND

YOU NEED TO FIND CARE

In the downloadable world Plants Properties Equipment you are guided by an altruistic crip doula-like being to wildcraft herbal medicines, purge your medical records, and visit a grotto full of sonic offerings.

Soundtrack featuring Deaf and Disabled artists:

Johanna Hedva, Andy Slater, Molly Joyce, Chisato Minamimura, Medical Museum (Hang Linton + Laura Lulika) and VOR.

All tracks featured within captioned and audio described in-game videos. Partial proceeds from album sales to benefit

Arts Accessibility Network Manitoba.

Album out now on Bandcamp.

Virtual world out on Itch.io.

Plants Properties Equipment was developed in collaboration with Séance Collective with advanced accessibility guidelines.

THE WORLD

A creek running through a grasslands aread with a massive planet hanging in a blue sky. There are giant ceramic monoliths and strangely large plants.

Grotto with a giant stack of book, hot springs, massive crystals, flower and balloons. Its a sunny day with a blue sky.

Rock face of grotto area with dozens of crutches lining the walls. It is night time with a starry sky and a massive moon or planet hanging in the sky, bisected by the rock face.

A vast field of poppies and other flowers perched high atop a mountain ridge. In the distance two planets hover in the starry night sky. A hospital bed lays in the middle of the alpine meadow.

Grasslands surrounded by rocky cliff faces. It is sunny with stars still in the blue sky and a massive moon. A stone monolith towers in close view with another smaller one to the left.

Grotto at dusk with pink clouds. Multicoloured balloons, bones, giant crystals litter the rocky area. Subtitles read, "More things show up every day, crystals, canes, books, balloons, flowers."

SOUNDTRACK

Johanna Hedva crouches on a dark stage with their black hair completely obscuring their face, leaning over a bunch of effect pedals, one leg in a tall black boot is lifted, one arm reaches towards the pedals.

AO Roberts a white nonbinary person performs as VOR, standing with the their arms bent and hands cupping the back of their head with messy blonde hair. They are dressed all in black in front of speakers and a red tableclothed table covered in sound gear, another table to the left with more sound gear and a white tablecloth. There's a tray of lit candles on the floor in front of them.

AO Roberts performs as VOR, standing with the their arms bent and hands cupping the back of their head with messy blonde hair. They are dressed all in black in front of speakers and a red tableclothed table covered in sound gear, another table to the left with more sound gear and a white tablecloth. There's a tray of lit candles on the floor in front of them.

Molly Joyce, a white woman dressed in black with long hair tied up in a bun, faces a toy piano with both arms perched on its surface.

A white man with neglected sandy blond hair and a red and grey beard. He has blue eyes that are trying to make contact with you. He is partially smiling with his mouth closed. He has dimples. His mother says he looks like Beau Bridges.

Chisato, a Japanese woman in a white top, leans over the back of an upright piano, her body from shoulder down obscured by the soundboard. She holds a pair of bolt cutters on one of the piano wires ready to cut.

Artists (L-R ):

Johanna Hedva, VOR, Medical Museum,

Molly Joyce, Andy Slater, and Chisato Minamimura.

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