Artifacts of the Fault
The experience is part of the 3rd home theater festival in Tarusa, «Tarusa Stories. Fog» held on July 9 to 10.
Installation/performance art. The audience is trained and immersed into the foggy world of Tarusa, an expedition to search for its artifacts is organized.
For 57 years, the planet Earth has seen the formation of the Foggy Worlds, which do not obey the physical and spatial laws of our reality.
One day the Fog World was formed in the city of Tarusa. Local explorers had already set out on an expedition, but did not return, continuing their journey through the Fault.
My goal was to study the Foggy World of Tarusa, to find its artifacts, features and traces of former explorers.
The artifacts are the fossils of the Foggy World. When investigated, it turned out that their early functions were similar to Earth’s shells or cocoons. Due to an unknown anomaly, they did not disappear with the Foggy World zone.
Each artifact has its own location and story, which the viewer learns about through the performance. Performance mechanics: immersing the viewer in the foggy world of the city of Tarusa by going through several levels: (1) creating armor: the Tarusa helmet; (2) creating tools; (3) immersion in the Misty World through the locations of the installation.
Artifacts are equipped with QR codes leading to audio collages containing stories and travel notes by the members of the first Tarusa expedition of the Foggy World.
The objects were presented at the HSE ART GALLERY Final Student Exhibition of the National Research University Higher School of Economics from June 30 till August 14, 2022. The installation includes robots Gardener 0.7.
