Haunt Me If You Can
A cultural and educational project initiated by Asociația Entuziart at West Side Hallo Fest 2025, with coVR Videos as collaborator — exploring the personal shadow through VR drawing, dance therapy and 360° film. Open to festival visitors and to children and young people from DGASPC Sector 6.
Haunt Me If You Can worked at the intersection of art, technology and self-knowledge, taking the idea of personal shadow as its starting point — the hidden emotions, fears and desires we tend to keep out of sight, and the ways contemporary artistic media can give them a form. Across three festival days (24, 25, 26 October 2025), the project held a participatory frame in which technology was used as an instrument of personal reflection, emotional processing and social inclusion.
The project was initiated by Asociația Entuziart, with coVR Videos as collaborator — contributing the 360° film Danstopic Panoramic and the VR drawing practice with Open Brush developed earlier in 2025. It was co-financed by Primăria Sector 6 through its 2025 cultural funding programme, in the context of West Side Hallo Fest, the largest Halloween cultural festival in Romania.
The daily programme was built around two connected workshops, each holding a different layer of the encounter, alongside individual 360° film viewings.
Monstrul Interior (Inner Monster) — facilitated by Konrad Mihat (coVR Videos), this was a 3D drawing workshop in VR headsets using Open Brush. Participants were guided to translate their own vision of a personal monster into shape, colour and movement, producing a series of three-dimensional drawings — charged, sincere, abstract renderings of an interior figure. Because Open Brush records the full drawing process as well as the final piece, the workshop also produced an archive of how each participant arrived at their monster.
Fantoma Personală (Personal Ghost) — facilitated by Loredana Larionescu (Asociația Entuziart), this workshop combined dance, introspection and visual art. Participants first viewed Danstopic Panoramic, then took part in a dance therapy session based on the Transformational Body Tracing method, traced their own silhouette on paper, and drew the emotions felt inside and around the body. The resulting drawing took shape as a personal ghost — a candid map of what each participant was carrying that day.
Across the festival, individual 360° viewings of Danstopic Panoramic opened a third entry point: a panoramic essay on body, identity and movement that helped attune the body before the workshops proper.
The collected VR drawings together form a digital gallery — dozens of three-dimensional pieces, each one a colour-traced encounter with a private figure, together a record of emotional range and unguarded expression. The project also produced a 360° After Movie documenting the three festival days.
Haunt Me If You Can brought together artists, therapists and participants from very different backgrounds inside a safe frame for expression and personal discovery. As a working format, it demonstrated that art, dance and immersive technology can sit alongside each other as means of self-knowledge and empathic communication, rather than as competing media.
