Psychosis (MR or Mixed Reality installation) is based on the text of the cult British playwright Sarah Kane (1971-1999) "4:48 Psychosis", written by her in a psychiatric clinic in early 1999, shortly before her suicide.
The viewer is transported inside the surrealistic visions of Sarah Kane’s protagonist, embarking on a psychedelic journey that begins with a real hospital corridor and transitions into the virtual space.
The MR project of the AES+F installation "Psychosis" has a prehistory in the theatrical format. In June 2016, the Stanislavsky Electrotheatre premiered the play "Psychosis" – a joint project of AES+F and director Alexander Zeldovich. The video (3D animation), created by AES+F, runs parallel to the text, sometimes associatively coinciding with it, and other times surrealistically diverging from it. In their new work the artists were interested in returning to such themes of the 90s as corporeality, psychedelics and social protest, turning to the latest digital technologies of the 21st century. The poetics of the video oscillate between fairytale-esque and terrifying, filled with images of the female body, blood, black snow, psychedelic colors and cockroaches.
The music by Dmitry Kourliandski, which is used in the installation, same as in the theatre performance, is composed of fragments of the "German Requiem" by Brahms.
https://aesf.art/projects/vr-psychosis/
