Artist Collective Kunst - Faustian Mountain

June 2021

“We live in a Faustian society. At the core is the idea of continuous growth. We are chronically insatiable. We act to make it easier, and faster. The cost of seeking the maximum benefit is unreasonable. Faust has been used as a metaphor for what the modern man is. We are never satisfied with what we have been able to achieve on our own.”

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”Artist Collective Kunst’s Faustian Mountain takes a stand in a world where social, economic, and geopolitical decisions alter the environment in a way that affects everything. In the exhibition, the visitor can step up on the observation deck and look through binoculars at a virtual landscape that consists of statistics and data flow that describe the state of the world.”

VR, Oculus Quest 2, sound, lights, wood, 2021

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Originally exhibited in June 2021 as part of Kunst’s 10 year anniversary exhibition at Gallery Poriginal, Pori, Finland. Yann Trolong and myself were responsible for creating the 3D landscape seen through the viewing platform’s virtual reality goggles and doing the necessary software plumbing to make the thing run reliably for the visitors to experience.