Presented by: ESPRONCEDA – Institute of Art & Culture
Spanish Premiere: October 30–31, 2025 | 18:00–21:00 h
Venue: Carrer d’Espronceda 326, Nau 4–5, 08027 Barcelona
By registration only Limited capacity (20 spots per day) Register HERE
Within the framework of NUBIA LAB INCUBACIÓN IA MÓNS 2025 and the program “TRES FREQÜÈNCIES: A Month of Immersive Art, Sound & Vision”
Barcelona, October 2025 — ESPRONCEDA Institute of Art & Culture proudly presents the Spanish premiere of Traversing the Mist, the acclaimed immersive XR experience by Taiwanese artist and director Chou Tung-Yen, produced by Very TheatreandVery Mainstream Studio (Taiwan).
The exhibition opens on October 30, 2025, at 18:00 h at ESPRONCEDA (Barcelona), inaugurating the international program Tres freqüències — A Month of Immersive Art, Sound & Vision, presented within the framework of NUBIA LAB INCUBACIÓN IA MÓNS 2025.
A poetic odyssey through perception, identity, and transformation
Traversing the Mist is a 6DoF multi-user XR installation that invites participants to explore a surreal gay sauna — a dreamlike labyrinth of vapor, memory, and emotion.
Audiences embody the same figure: a young Taiwanese man navigating corridors that dissolve into mist, confronting reflections of desire and fear in a constantly shifting environment.
Blending live performance, 3D animation, and immersive interaction, the piece expands Chou’s internationally celebrated Trilogy of Mist (In the Mist, Gazing, in the Mist, and Traversing the Mist), transforming intimate experience into shared virtual space.
Described by Variety as “a dreamlike odyssey awash in fear and flesh,” and hailed at NewImages Festival for its “visceral and embodied exploration of connection and identity,” Traversing the Mist has been presented at Venice Immersive, Kaohsiung Film Festival, and IDFA DocLab — and now premieres in Spain for the first time at ESPRONCEDA.
About the Artist — Chou Tung-Yen
Chou Tung-Yen (Taiwan) is an award-winning theatre director, filmmaker, and scenographer whose work fuses live performance, digital technology, and poetic narrative.
Founder of Very Theatre and Very Mainstream Studio, Chou explores the intersection of human emotion, technology, and queer identity through immersive storytelling and new media forms.
His Trilogy of Mist (2021–2023) — comprising In the Mist (Venice Film Festival 2021), Gazing, in the Mist (2022), and Traversing the Mist (2023) — reimagines intimacy in virtual space, blurring the boundaries between theatre and digital art.
Chou’s works have been showcased worldwide, including at Venice Immersive, Kaohsiung Film Festival, NewImages Festival, and IDFA DocLab.
www.vmstudio.tw | Instagram: @vmstudiotw
About TRES FREQÜÈNCIES — A Month of Immersive Art, Sound & Vision
Curated within NUBIA LAB INCUBACIÓN IA MÓNS 2025, Tres freqüències transforms ESPRONCEDA into a space for XR, sound, and collective imagination.
The program features international and local artists such as Moritz Simon Geist, Depthbuffer Studio, Daniel Sabio (The Glad Scientist), Kat Alice Pegler, Sam Potter & Matthew Grimble, Niall Hill, and Xavi Bové (La Salle).
It also includes student projects from La Salle’s Master and Bachelor in Digital Arts programs, along with guest works by Average of IA and Nereides, building bridges between emerging and established voices in digital creation.
Mist³ — Traversing Dimensions (Oct 30 – Nov 1)
Sonic³ — Resonance in Three Dimensions (Nov 6)
Dream³ — The Third Reality (Nov 26 – 28)
About NUBIA LAB INCUBACIÓN IA MÓNS 2025
NUBIA LAB, led by ESPRONCEDA Institute of Art & Culture, is Catalonia’s leading incubation program for digital art and technology.
The 2025 edition focuses on projects integrating Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Extended Reality (XR) as creative engines, combining technical innovation, usability design (UI/UX), and 360° mentorship from international experts.
Under the theme “Experiment and Conquer the Digital Future,” NUBIA LAB 2025 fosters ethical, sustainable, and visionary digital art practices, positioning Barcelona and Mons as European hubs of creative technology.
https://nubialabs.com/nubia-lab-incubacion-ia-mons-2025/
Press Contact
Maria Rubies — maria.rubies@espronceda.net | +34 607 639 552
Registration link: https://info-espronceda.reservio.com/?week=2025-10-27
