Seer

Seer is a bold and solo death experience!

House of Vnholy has developed a high concept production on the subject of death.  Death is always a sad and frightening thought, but when you are forced to contemplate the subject in the form of an art installation, this immersive ordeal can be a challenging and somewhat spine-chilling encounter.

Matthew Adey is the name behind the brand; a Melbourne based designer and theatre artist who specialises in immersive visual experiences using lights, objects and body. Seer is the second installation of his trilogy, based on an Edgar Allan Poe short story titled Shadow.

My death experience begins in a glass room, a self-reflecting space overlooking an urban wasteland, greeted by a sheaf of flowers tied to a mirrored pillar.

A neo- gothic assistant appears, I am ushered into a series of antechambers and then the big death finale, l sit propped up in what resembles a coffin, in a dark empty theatre. The curtain rises and the death show begins, darkness, holographic white light and strange red visuals and a booming industrial and grinding soundscape. I am beckoned onto the stage by a naked figure to face the end of my journey.

Seer is a fascinating and immersive experience yet I feel the artistic interpretation is overwhelmingly macho and l would have employed more of Poe’s macabre and eerie stylistics and questioned the process a little further to cut through the heaviness of this solo journey.

That said it is a fascinating interpretation of death with a masterful use of   technology.

I do recommend the experience because it will never, ever happen again!

Flora Georgiou