PROTOCOLS FOR MELTING
27 September
17:00–20:00
Location: Great Cemetery and Survival Kit 16 Info Centre
The event will be held in English
Augmented reality walk
PROTOCOLS FOR MELTING is a new site-specific artwork in the form of an augmented reality walk, created by artists Joonas Hyvönen and Līga Spunde.
Guided by a custom-built “compass”, an animated avatar, walkers follow a looping path punctuated by geolocated digital interventions - AR trail signs that come alive in a darkly comedic tragedy of wayfinding under the late-capitalist attention economy. Anthropomorphized and performative, these signs reflect internal struggles familiar to both activists and algorithms: the constant demand to be seen, the exhaustion it breeds, and the slow burnout of melting intentions.
After the walk, there will be an artist talk at the festival Survival Kit 16 venue "Grīziņdārzs".
17:00 – Walk
Location: Great Cemetery, meeting point at the cemetery parking lot on Miera Street
Please register in advance to join the walk. Places are limited.
18:30 – Artist Talk
Location: Survival Kit 16 Info Centre, Grīziņdārzs
More about the walk and talk Protocols for Melting here
The walks take place in Helsinki and Riga as part of the Latvian Centre for Contemporary Art’s 25th anniversary programme, “Time, Dawn, or a Passing Train.” The walks are organised by the Art & Media Culture Agency M-Cult and the Latvian Centre for Contemporary Art.