Lost Islands: Performative Expeditions at the End of the World
Bhowmik, Samir; Parikka, Jussi (2024)
Bhowmik, Samir
Parikka, Jussi
RIXC Centre for New Media Culture
2024
1407-2858
Bhowmik, S., & Parikka, J. (2024). Lost Islands: Performative Expeditions at the End of the World. In L. Díaz-Kommonen et al. (Eds.), Beyond the Hybrid: Narratives, New Media Experiments and Speculations Touching Art and Science Knowledge Exchange (pp. 221–232). Acoustic Space, 20(5). RIXC Centre for New Media Culture.
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The island is a microcosm of entangled ecologies, histories and technologies, which also can act as a proxy for probing larger contemporary issues haunting human culture. To engage with this premise, we address “Lost Islands”, a participatory performance project that was realized for the Helsinki Biennial 2021 on the island of Vallisaari. The project consists of a series of performative expeditions that explore the island’s entanglements with nature and the disappearance of geographies under infrastructure. By analyzing the site-specific methods of immersion and participation with the material and digital culture of the island, the authors theorize on how performance as a critical environmental narrative can reframe the submerged aspects of the island as a site of labor and energy.