Picnoleptic Flashbacks
The work tries to explore the multifaceted resonance of the rave experience. Far from an attempt to simulate its visual symbolism and to replicate its actual ambience, it rather focuses on uncovering the subtle nature of a rave’s echo, its reminiscence immediately relaunching into a secondary level of sensory awareness tied to the modulation of memory and affect. Making use of aural and optical elements related to rave recollections - haze, fragmented sounds, earworms, lasers, strobes, as well as the theatricality of the club and the performative aspects of club culture - it seeks to create an oneiric 3D environment which transforms the physical space of the exhibition into an empathetic, disembodied and remediated version of the club. This kind of ‘rave mnemonics’ through the use of an imaginary, trangressive space and its affective representations for the viewer, proposes a different, rebounding articulation of the rave, a cross-cutting through its fundamental form and matter in order to reveal and enact its resonant meaning.

2017 | virtual reality installation | oculus rift headset | dimensions variable

“When the Rave is Done” at KEIV / Athens, Greece

Music produced by Xyn Cabal

Antonis Kalagkatsis picnoleptic flashbacks 2017
Picnoleptic Flashbacks - still extracted from rendered video - 2017
Antonis Kalagkatsis picnoleptic flashbacks 2017
Picnoleptic Flashbacks - still extracted from rendered video - 2017
Antonis Kalagkatsis picnoleptic flashbacks 2017
Picnoleptic Flashbacks - still extracted from rendered video - 2017
Antonis Kalagkatsis picnoleptic flashbacks 2017
Picnoleptic Flashbacks - still extracted from rendered video - 2017
Antonis Kalagkatsis picnoleptic flashbacks 2017
Picnoleptic Flashbacks - still extracted from rendered video - 2017
Antonis Kalagkatsis picnoleptic flashbacks 2017
Picnoleptic Flashbacks - still extracted from rendered video - 2017