‘Camp Scorpius’
June 3 - 25, 2023
A fully immersive, multi-media, multi-sensory performance art installation for the “Seattle: City of the Future” group exhibition. Visitors are guided through a portal and unwittingly find themselves transported to a refugee camp on a dark and stormy night. It is the year 2058, the United States is no longer, and the world is ravaged by climate change catastrophes. They are now volunteers.
”Welcome to Camp Scorpius, a partnership between the Greater Seattle Department of Sustainable Resettlement and the Yellow Cross of Cascadia United Territories.
Camp Scorpius is situated on the grounds of a former disaster response camp (The Little Big One, 2049), which itself was situated on a former immigration processing center (The Separation Crisis, 2043-44). Though it may be of apocryphal origin, the camp is said to be named for a particular feature of the night sky. If one stands just outside the northern exit gate during the summer months, one can look south and see the framed tail of the constellation Scorpius.
After the Great Separation of '42, the Department of Sustainable Resettlement was created to handle the influx of people migrating to the Cascadia United Territories. Sustainable Resettlement, along with the newly formed Yellow Cross, provided humanitarian aide, relocation assistance, and integration services.
A decade and a half later, here at Camp Scorpius, a new influx emerges. And with it, a greater urgency.”
360 VR of installation/exhibition (For ‘Camp Scorpius’ - enter exhibition, make immediate left, then right towards bathroom. Installation is through doorway with yellow curtain/lights.
CRN orientation video: