Video/ Audio Tour

This work involves the construction of a science fiction story in the traditional linguistic narrative structure which has manifested itself into an immersive environment; a vortex of the short story.  The novella presents the current anxieties of the catastrophes associated with a global war but without the war.  By imagining a future that survived something besides nuclear armament, the inhabitants endured cataclysmic events nonetheless.  It is difficult for the present population to imagine what type of apocalypse might be bestowed upon the future of mankind.  In my fiction, the inhabitants of the year 2808 know of no other humanity other than its present, as history had been forgotten and lost.  All that has come to be known of their environment and physicality was an in-escapable evolutionary change that occurred over the past 800 years due to chemicals and nanotechnology. 

The inhabitants of the world in 2808 were left with mere fragments of a forgotten history, archeologists of an amnesiac humanity.  Left to pick up the pieces, the installation entitled Fragments of Urbania, presents the viewer with the set of a-would-be futuristic research-museum laboratory of a post-apocalyptic earth.  As the viewer crosses a threshold onto a set of displayed found artifacts in questionable arrangement, the atmosphere shifts as one must adjust their eyes to the red light saturating every surface within the space.  Through further disorientation of one’s habitual viewing modes, one is led through the room by means of an I-pod audio tour.  An authoritative voice commands one to move in arbitrary directions as it spits out seemingly discovered facts of a world of refuse and collection.  This uncanny gallery filled with the gatherings of a strange past, leaves one to question where the threshold of entering the space has ended as the commandeering voice in the audio tour becomes stamped in ones conscious as they exit the facility.