LIQUID DREAMS by artist Annika Kappner will be on show at the Uroboros Festival in Prague from 2-4 November 2023. The immersive installation presents critical and poetic perspectives on human relationship with artificial intelligence (Al) and its connection to the mineral kingdom.

The Uroboros festival is an annual gathering of artists, designers, and researchers experimenting with diverse means of living with and caring for more-than-human ecologies. Attending to ‘more-than-human’ as inclusive of both multispecies and algorithmic agencies, the festival invites art & design inquiries into contemporary social, technological, and ecological shifts.

The immersive sensory installation LIQUID DREAMS invites participants to embark on a holistic journey that explores meeting points of human and mineral intelligence and speculates on their shared history. Participants of LIQUID DREAMS are invited to become part of the mineral kingdom. Like algorithms, humans are trained with a flow of images and sensory impressions about their relationship with minerals. LIQUID DREAMS uses analoque bodies as a medium to search for non-binary alternatives to dominant Western ways of perceiving the worlds and explores related uses of Al. By exploring multispecies ecofeminism, technopaganism and embodied knowledge, the installation provokes different ways of feeling and sensing, inviting participants to grow new connections with and care for the self and the other – machine, human, animal, plant, and mineral.

LIQUID DREAMS can be experienced at Tetem until 12 November and at the Uroboros Festival from 2-4 November.

Find out more about the festival and the program at uroboros.design.