Isolation Mobile Application

Isolation is an augmented reality art experience that compares the conditions of enforced quarantine during the coronavirus pandemic with the experience of refugees seeking asylum in Australia.

The current pandemic evokes much sympathy for individuals within enforced quarantine as people around the world experience similar conditions while in lockdown within countries with very high rates of community transmission. By presenting two versions of the same room, Isolation compares mandatory quarantine with another type of enforced confinement - refugees seeking asylum who are forced to remain in detainment centers. There is significant disparity between the conditions of a 5-star hotel versus a detainment centre. Moreover, some detainees include families as well as individuals who have spent over 10 years living in detainment. And yet, do they attract as much sympathy?

Isolation premiered during the XRWA Festival 2020 and is available from the Google Play Store here for devices running Android 7.0 and above.