Kamilla Mez
Image 1: Installation view.
Image 2: Interaction with the AR installation.
Image 3: Guest interacting with the installation.
Image 4: Virtual banner, Parasite.
5: Interaction with the AR installation.
Image 6: Virtual sculpture, The Meme Cube.
Image 7: Virtual flags, Thirdspace.
Image 8: Virtual banner, Restrictions.
All images are documentation by Mikkel Kaldal. Some edited by Kamilla Mez.
AR technology achieved a popular breakthrough in 2018, when the Pokémon Go app became accessible to the broader public. The new game app moved children and teenagers away from their stationary computers and out into the urban landscape, where their movement changed the mobility in the cities and created new social spaces. The friction between these physical and virtual realms indicates a new engagement in our surroundings. The digital realm becomes a glaze poured over our world like glaze on earthenware. Slowly it descends into the many air pockets, mixing with our collective sense of concepts, and creating another, expanded sense of reality.
The installation Is There Love in the Telematic Embrace? works site-specifically with the meeting between artists, mentor and the board of KP, but also to a greater extent wants to embrace the visitors in a ghost-like feeling, by mirroring the many image files and iMessages streaming through our bodies every single day. These metacognitive elephants, these 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘴, already hanging in the air, sturdy enough to be visualised in front of our eyes.
SPRING20
Kunsthal Aarhus, April 2021