APOLLYON'S GHOSTS
Poetry in space. A poem about UK technocracy created in augmented reality, between London and Berlin, before and after the start of the pandemic.
Apollyon's Ghost is a poem produced before and after Covid, between London and Berlin, that uses augmented reality to discuss technocracy, and the tension between public and private space.
The poem and its AR presentation explore the socio-political implications of increasingly centralised power's agency to edit 'reality'. 'Real world' sound fragments build on the spatial augmentation. The poem was written late 2018, but this project was created slowly during the time the pandemic began to change our lives, and is noticeable in the changing use of public space and time (physical and virtual). The poem first appeared in text form in the inaugural issue of The Dark Preview, a research collective and appears as an installation in the group exhibition 'Midnight Sun' at Black tower Projects, London in 2021.
We've long had an interest in the semantic structure of the city, and more recently both compelled and apprehensive about its increasing sentience. This project was also an opportunity to think about 'post aesthetics' within our virtual topography.
The poem and its AR presentation explore the socio-political implications of increasingly centralised power's agency to edit 'reality'. 'Real world' sound fragments build on the spatial augmentation. The poem was written late 2018, but this project was created slowly during the time the pandemic began to change our lives, and is noticeable in the changing use of public space and time (physical and virtual). The poem first appeared in text form in the inaugural issue of The Dark Preview, a research collective and appears as an installation in the group exhibition 'Midnight Sun' at Black tower Projects, London in 2021.
We've long had an interest in the semantic structure of the city, and more recently both compelled and apprehensive about its increasing sentience. This project was also an opportunity to think about 'post aesthetics' within our virtual topography.
Exhibitions & Events
Midnight Sun, Black Tower Projects, London. May/June 2021
Urban Night Project, London 2019
Midnight Sun, Black Tower Projects, London. May/June 2021
Urban Night Project, London 2019
Building the poem in a virtual space.
The second layer of the narrative asks the question, what becomes of public space when public space becomes the mind? Have we given up any possible ownership of selfhood, and is our understanding of ourselves now only a collective aggregatable phenomenon? This piece riffs on the virtual corporate purchase of public space, currently in commencement. A 3D virtual layer, that will re-commoditise what and how we use public space.
In the moment physical space and time has in a sense, ceded ground to its virtual equivalent. Yet the virtual is controlled down to a node? What does this mean for the mind, the mind as public space? What happens to language when we relinquish control and the mind is essentially mapped onto a mechanised physical space. How will we find each other again?
Selected Projects
Both complete works and experiments, thinking never breaks stride.
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