Spring Odyssey AR is part of Elise Morin's Art & Science research focused on the invisibility of radioactivity and the inaccessibility of bodies in the red forest of Chernobyl, one of the most radioactive areas on the planet.
Through a dialogue between wind and radioactivity, the augmented reality experience Spring Odyssey invites you to interact with a mutant tobacco plant trapped between real and virtual, and to participate in her liberation
Through a dialogue between wind and radioactivity co-written with Sabrina Calvo, Spring Odyssey AR invites you to meet and interact with the M_plant, a kind of natural Geiger counter which ability to make visible the radiations by nature invisible is evidenced by the golden spots that dot its foliage resulting from its DNA mutation induced by its exposure at the heart of the forest. At the end of Elise Morin’s approach, the M_Plant appears to be trapped in an interstitial world, half way between real and virtual: the augmented reality experience invites you to participate in her liberation.
Spring Odyssey AR is part of Elise Morin's research focused on the invisibility of radioactivity and the inaccessibility of bodies in the red forest located at 1 km from the Chernobyl power plant. Answers to our contemporary questions may be hidden there: How to coexist on a damaged Earth? How to tame the invisibility of high levels of radioactivity and learn the lessons of resilience? Resistance to radioactivity is one of the conditions for life in a “Planet B”, should we look to the sky?
Spring Odyssey AR has premiered in Stereolux in september 2021 during the 19th edition of the Scopitone Festival in Nantes in the frame of the exhibition Hyper Nature. The experience can be presented alone or in conjunction with Spring Odyssey VR and Elise Morin’s exhibitions.
