Instructions for Use

During this year`s edition of Zurich Art Weekend, the Immersive Arts Space will show Instruction for Use.
It is a performative XR-based installation involving visitors interacting in mixed reality headsets. The work is inspired by Fluxus performances as well as artist Bruce Nauman’s repetitive and ritualistic endurance videos from the 1960s where language is used to instruct physical action. AI agents analyze what cameras embedded in the headsets see and generate voiced-over instructions that provoke surprising actions/interactions between the visitors. Thus, a strange performance emerges in the mode of instructions executed by humans but imagined by machine.

Location: Unsorted – Space for algorithmic sounds and images, Josefstr. 206
Opening hours: 12. June – 17–21:30 | 13. June – 13–18:00 | 14. June 11–16:00
Registration: Sign up for a 30min slot here