Final Tours – End Time Travel Agency is a social sculpture and performative intervention. It is a unique opportunity to win a ticket to the journey that begins when the time comes to an end.
Algorithms create predictions, calculate results, make choices and affect public opinions. They influence invisibly therefore they are unpredictable in scale and impact and may cause destruction. Artist Collective Kunst depicts futuristic possibilities and choices made for the future. Installation and performative interventions reveal hidden exercise of power, social structures and norms in society.
Step up to the self-service device and answer 33 questions that have been picked up from dozens of questions currently made by official authorities such as Social Services, Employment office and immigration authorities or when someone’s psychophysical condition is been determined. Based on the answers given by customer of Final Tours, the algorithm selects passengers for the journey.
Materials: tablets, acrylic, LED lights
Images from the Sea Days exhibition by Artist Collective Kunst in Gallery Uusikuva, Satamakatu 9, Kotka in 15.2.-14.3.2020.