Live Streamed Film and Interactive Online Performance
Built-in a gaming engine, Feel My Metaverse is a CGI film set in a future where the climate crisis has rendered the earth uninhabitable. Corporation Alipay promptly disseminated life units. Inside these life units, humans live in a Metaverse of virtual worlds; worlds that feel as real as the earth. To survive in these virtual worlds, humans must earn points to keep their base bodies alive.
Analysing contemporary belief systems, the film deconstructs our understanding of reality and demonstrates that we can create our own future through the stories we collectively believe in. It contemplates how individuals can be required to trust, suffer and live in realities which rely on their oppression.
As part of Present Futures Digital Keiken launch their latest project - VIRAL ENERGY – a new online game set in a speculative future inside the metaverse. It explores our dependency and animistic nature towards our screens and how these self-centered technology evoke connection yet produces loneliness. Available to experience on Sunday 7th Feb.
Credits: Feel My Metaverse: Keiken and George Jasper Stone
Viral Energy: Keiken, obso1337 and Khidja
About Keiken
Keiken are a collaborative practice, co-founded by artists Tanya Cruz, Hana Omori and Isabel Ramos in 2015, they frequently work with multiple collaborators. Based between London and Berlin, they come from mixed diasporic backgrounds (Mexican/Japanese/European/Jewish). Keiken, Japanese for experience, create speculative worlds. They merge the physical and digital, “phygital”, using moving-image, CGI, gaming software, installation, virtual/augmented reality, programming and gamified performance. Simulating new structures and ways of existing they explore how societal introjection governs the way we feel, think and perceive.
Recent projects include Metaverse Womb for Creamcake 3HD, HAU, Berlin (2020), solo exhibition Augmented Empathy, FACT, Liverpool (2020) and performance with FACT x Ars Electronica, Metaverse We are at the end of something for Yerevan Biennial (2020) and Mira.Mov, Ideal, Barcelona (2020), Feel My Metaverse with gamified performance for transmediale at HKW, Berlin (2020), Mind, Body and Screen, Block Universe (2020), Feel(s) 360 for Image Behaviour at ICA, London (2019) and Feel My Metaverse in collaboration with George Jasper Stone for Jerwood Art’s Collaborate!, London (2019), Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt (2020) and for König Galerie’s The Artist Is Online (2020).
Instagram: _keiken_
Twitter:_keiken_
Facebook: @keikencollective
Live Streamed Film and Interactive Online Performance
Built-in a gaming engine, Feel My Metaverse is a CGI film set in a future where the climate crisis has rendered the earth uninhabitable. Corporation Alipay promptly disseminated life units. Inside these life units, humans live in a Metaverse of virtual worlds; worlds that feel as real as the earth. To survive in these virtual worlds, humans must earn points to keep their base bodies alive.
Analysing contemporary belief systems, the film deconstructs our understanding of reality and demonstrates that we can create our own future through the stories we collectively believe in. It contemplates how individuals can be required to trust, suffer and live in realities which rely on their oppression.
As part of Present Futures Digital Keiken launch their latest project - VIRAL ENERGY – a new online game set in a speculative future inside the metaverse. It explores our dependency and animistic nature towards our screens and how these self-centered technology evoke connection yet produces loneliness. Available to experience on Sunday 7th Feb.
Credits: Feel My Metaverse: Keiken and George Jasper Stone
Viral Energy: Keiken, obso1337 and Khidja
About Keiken
Keiken are a collaborative practice, co-founded by artists Tanya Cruz, Hana Omori and Isabel Ramos in 2015, they frequently work with multiple collaborators. Based between London and Berlin, they come from mixed diasporic backgrounds (Mexican/Japanese/European/Jewish). Keiken, Japanese for experience, create speculative worlds. They merge the physical and digital, “phygital”, using moving-image, CGI, gaming software, installation, virtual/augmented reality, programming and gamified performance. Simulating new structures and ways of existing they explore how societal introjection governs the way we feel, think and perceive.
Recent projects include Metaverse Womb for Creamcake 3HD, HAU, Berlin (2020), solo exhibition Augmented Empathy, FACT, Liverpool (2020) and performance with FACT x Ars Electronica, Metaverse We are at the end of something for Yerevan Biennial (2020) and Mira.Mov, Ideal, Barcelona (2020), Feel My Metaverse with gamified performance for transmediale at HKW, Berlin (2020), Mind, Body and Screen, Block Universe (2020), Feel(s) 360 for Image Behaviour at ICA, London (2019) and Feel My Metaverse in collaboration with George Jasper Stone for Jerwood Art’s Collaborate!, London (2019), Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt (2020) and for König Galerie’s The Artist Is Online (2020).
Instagram: _keiken_
Twitter:_keiken_
Facebook: @keikencollective