Things Fall Apart

Things Fall Apart is a musical installation in mixed reality.
W. B. Yeats describes a world of recurring turmoil in his 1919 poem "The Second Coming". What holds us together, what part do we individually play in the state of things, what ambigous heroes make everything right again?

Inspired by this supra-temporal text and exclusively for this work, the Israeli composer Micha Kaplan has written music that is part of an innovative mixed reality installation. In the expansion and transformation of real space through the combination of artificial intelligence and VR glasses, visitors roam through a computer-generated landscape of images, sound and text, thereby creating a new perspective on this piece of world literature.

The artist collective CyberRäuber, who have made a name for themselves with innovative works in virtual reality and artificial intelligence in the performing arts, are once again breaking new ground in this work: together with powerful neural networks, they are creating a virtual, three-dimensional space in real space, a temporary, rhizomatic sculpture that visitors experience and create together.