Myth.exe: Sound, Simulation, and the Afterlife
Death becomes data and myth mutates into motion in O Future’s ENTER AFTERLIFE, a hybrid installation that turns Thorvaldsen’s Museum into a playable underworld.
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At Thorvaldsen’s Museum in Copenhagen, artist duo O Future present ENTER AFTERLIFE: an immersive experience where digital myth intersects with neoclassical form, and the afterlife is coded into sensory narrative. The work invites audiences to walk alone—through questions, not answers.
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Echoes of Hades, Pulses of Elysium
Projections animate statues and space, reconfiguring stone into signal. “We imagined the museum as a passage,” says Katherine Mills Rymer. “A space that honours the past and also opens toward other realities.”
These realities reflect the structure of myth-driven video games—cyclical quests, mirrored challenges. Here, the metaphysical is mediated through interactive metaphor. What would death look like if built as a playable simulation?
Simulation theory meets classical vision, drawing on the mythological scaffolding of games. The result is liminal and symbolic: life as code, death as ritual upgrade. Not parody. Purpose.
Sound as Algorithmic Invocation
The sound design—deep frequencies and spectral textures—doesn’t accompany the space; it computes it. O Future reimagines classical instruments like Apollo’s lyre or Mercury’s flute through a digital filter, composing for the architecture itself.
“Once you tailor the music to that space, the room becomes part of the expression,” says Jens Bjørnkjær. “It turns emotional resonance into acoustic architecture.”
Bjørnkjær’s background bridges classical composition and experimental electronics, yielding a soundscape that is layered, reactive, and conceptually alive.
Installation as Hypothesis
Like works by teamLab or Refik Anadol, ENTER AFTERLIFE doesn’t merely represent space—it interrogates it. The installation becomes an epistemological framework: you enter with perception and exit with doubt.
Ritual Deployment: May 17
On May 17, during Art Matter Festival, the museum transforms fully: sculptural animations, sonic immersion, dream logic. Guests recline. Myths breathe.
From Simulation to Ceremony
ENTER AFTERLIFE runs May 18–June 29, 2025. Opening night: May 17. Free entry, no registration. The journey isn’t explained. It’s experienced.
