ALhmesde

In the novel Radio Free Albemuth (1985), Philip K. Dick recounts the hallucinations that have marked his life.

Are they a result of his imagination or does someone communicate with him?

The plot is set in an America very similar to the reality. The oppressive government is countered by the student climate in Berkeley. In a suffocating context like a dictatorship or a pandemic, imagination easily takes over. Hence, Nicholas can no longer distinguish between reality and hallucination. In the course of the story he realises that the visions come from Albemuth, a distant star where resides the radio that tunes into his unconscious.

This technology, Valis, is embodied by a living, intellectual, fragmented, floating, rhizomatic and telepathic entity.

Inspired by this scenary created by Philip K. Dick, I have been working on my obsession to replicate my past in Jerusalem in 2019, more alive than ever, now.

The project presents an invasion of urban space with vibrations emitted by ALhmesde: there Jerusalem 2019 has remained unaltered. An interpreter connects me to this place by deciphering scores.