Luna Meta Park
2022


Luna Meta Park is a large-scale multimedia installation comprising transitional theme park consisting of sound installations and mechanical sculptures called Bio-Games, a terminology used by Sphinxes as they explore the relationship between nature, industry and science.
Luna Meta Park creates a gradual immersion in the atmosphere  of Luna Park as the coincidental audience activates it.

The audience is mesmerized by iconic musical symphonies and a simulated architecture. Within these familiar symbols, however, lurks something tragic. The entrance to the new park for the coincidental audience begins with the three-meter illuminated sign Luna Meta Park.






Luna Meta Park Sign

Inscription sculpture, 3 pieces
Materials: Metal, yellow metal color, colorful LED lights
Dimensions:  3m Height x 45cm Width each piece


The route starts at the Bio-game Melting Point, an interactive installation consisting of a cotton wool production mechanism. The new body is sweet. It is shared in the exhibition, under  the pleasant melody of Pastoral Symphony by Ludwig Van Beethoven.



Melting Point

Materials: Metal, purple metal colour, electric cotton candy machine, LED lights, sugar, wooden sticks
Dimensions: 90cm Height x 70cm Diameter







Above it, 124 led lamps form the phrase "TAKE AND EAT” , creating poetic escapes  with excerpts of verses from the poem  "Farewell" by Yannis Ritsos, this Bio-game refers to the concept of  the body, as he proposes as a hero the initiator of the poem in question, Grigoris Afxentiou.
For  Afxentiou, fire is his own limit  from life to death.








Mechanical Hand

Materials: Metal, red metal colour, green LED light, claw machine, joy stick with screen, mirror, plexiglas,  soil, flowers
Dimensions: 2.20 m Height x 2.50m Width x 1m Depth





The skill cut game turns into the Mechanical Hand Bio-game, a metallic installation filled with soil, uproots the vegetation in a literal visualization of displacement.   The Mechanical Hand raises issues of territorialization of desires and sensations, for territorialization in other places without roots.  




Luna Meta Park’s sounds are classical pieces, that used by Disney after the Crash for his film Fantasia.

The Rite of Spring, developed by Roerich from Stravinsky's outline idea, the scenario depicts various primitive rituals celebrating the advent of spring.






The coincidental audience can play with the mechanical sculpture, deciding whether to uproot or not the flowers.


Cut Flow

12 pieces
Materials: Clay
Dimensions:  Perimeter 16m, each piece 1m Width x 40cm Depth x 20cm Height


Fishing  rods stand next to a dry cut river ready to activate the next sculpture.


Fishing Rods


16 pieces
Materials: Wood, colour, rope, fishing sinker
Dimensions: 1m Height x 10mm Thickness

In Cut Flow spectators can fish for plastic fish.

The fish curries  texts from ecological disasters of the planet, taken from official world news.






The musical background here, recalls religious rites of penance and invocation to the Goddess with “Ave Maria” by Franz Schubert, creating  space   and  time  to  reflect on the  loss.

Fish

46 pieces
Materials: Recycled plastic bottle caps
Dimensions: 7cm Height x 20cm Width


A road marking material that commands a change of course stands sculpturally bearing the inscription "Everland" *, demarcating  both  the pause and the entry into new routes.





Everland


Materials: Plastic road marking, LED purple light, yellow sticker
Dimensions: 0.58cm Height x 0.96cm Width x 0.38 Depth




The Avatar of Reckful

For the final Bio-game the audience will need to cross a long, dark hallway, at the end of which they will meet Reckful's digital avatar in the first digital monument.





There, each spectator is confronted with an enigma derived from artificial intelligence mechanisms, marking the moment when the roles between artificial and human are reversed.