playField 'The Last Resort'

playField doesn't shy away from difficult questions: how free are we in a world driven by algorithms? What does digitalisation do to our social lives, our privacy and our memory? Visitors are not welcomed as spectators, but as participants. Their choices and reactions become part of the work, creating a unique experience for each participant.

With The Last Resort, playField has created a theatrical journey in which visitors follow a route of text and images leading towards the pavilion. Along the way, a speculative afterlife gradually unfolds. The Last Resort expands an all-inclusive holiday resort into a site plan surrounding the pavilion. Its guests are not the living, but deadbots: digital survivors, AI reconstructions of people who are no longer alive.

Through a series of artistic interventions, the work offers glimpses into a world that does not truly exist—like perforations connecting our world to that of our digital alter egos.

This interactive installation also features a live performance, presented three times throughout the exhibition. To ensure the best possible experience for every participant, capacity is limited for each performance. Advance registration is therefore required.

This event is part of the programme of the REFUGE pavilion.

Photo 1: Bram Verrecas
Photo 2: playField