Ghost in the Atom celebrates the importance of remembering and of time passing.
The spectator enters a seemingly empty space, puts VR-glasses on, and through this act enters a different, fantastic and invisible world. The starting point of our piece is the world’s longest funeral that takes place at the nuclear waste repository in Onkalo, Finland, 435m underground. Copper encased capsules of nuclear waste will be placed in these underground caves for 100,000 years. It is a surreal, imagined landscape, where everything is seeped in a longing for touching and being touched, it is a labor of love.
The work uses VR technology and can be experienced by one spectator at a time. The duration of the work is 15-20 min. The groundwork for the work has been done by HNV-kollektiivi at the Onkalo facility of the Olkiluoto nuclear power plant complex. The cross-disciplinary art collective HNV-kollektiivi works in visual arts, music and theatre together with experts from different fields. The work is created by artists Felicia Honkasalo, Akuliina Niemi and choreographer and performer Masi Tiitta.
The work is a co-production of Kunstventures and Baltic Circle. Kunstventures is an artist-driven production company specialised in the new forms of media art and projects conducted in exceptional spaces.
The work has been supported by Finland’s Promotion Centre for Audiovisual Culture AVEK’s Mediarata initiative and Kone Foundation.
Thank you: Posiva.