The Mechanism
Live performance and video.
1080p HD Video, 17:04 , 2017.
Developed with the assistance of ZK/U, Berlin and The Forum of Sensory Motion.
Originally presented as a performance-lecture at The Forum of Sensory Motion, Athens, 2017, Westspace, Melbourne, 2017.
Screenings: Testing Grounds, Melbourne, 2017.
The Mechanism, Live performance and video, Westspace, Melbourne, 2017, Photo by Keelan O’Hehir.
In 1901 a mysterious device is found in a Roman shipwreck of the island of Antikythera. In 1974 a science fiction author has a revelation that contemporary southern California is an group hallucination controlled by an ancient roman machine called the black iron prison. In 2028 a prominent technologist gives a press conference to announce he has died and is addressing his audience from an augmented reality network. This complex narrative weaves together historical research, philosophical inquiry and speculation on future events.
Shot in Greece, Germany and Australia.