Drifting, Browsing, Cruising

ZKM, Karlsruhe

Site-specific VR installation

08.07 – 08.11.2021

[...] Taking ZKM as a site of inquiry, this VR site-specific installation becomes a place where ritual, ideology and architecture are shifted to reflect the non-religious, the sexual, and the everyday in conversation with the ideological architecture of the museum itself.

The vinyl floor plan acts as a visual anchor, signaling the boundaries of the virtual realm while confusing the symbolic and material boundaries of the museum. Participants are invited to find new ways to compromise within these reconfigured spaces.   Some may experience the work not through the VR headsets but through the intimacy and voyeurism of watching others.  [...]

Architectural designer: Eleni Diana Elia
Sound Design: Andreas Yakovlev Michaelides

Online exhibition:
https://fantastic-confabulations.beyondmatter.eu/drifting-browsing-cruising/index.html