![]() ![]() The original multitrack recordings of Kid A and Amnesiac are scattered and reformed in a series of impossible or possible spaces populated by equally impossible or possible creatures, surrounded by the art of Stanley Donwood and Thom Yorke, created as the millennium loomed. Stanley Donwood and Thom Yorke’s twisted anxious artwork and writing made to accompany the music of Radiohead’s Kid A and Amnesiac is uncovered and brought back to life, in a building hidden in a forest made in pencil, stretching the idea of what an exhibition is to breaking point. KID A MNESIA EXHIBITION is a fevered dream-space, an edifice, built from the art and creatures, words and recordings of Radiohead’s Kid A and Amnesiac uncovered from 20 odd years ago, reassembled and given new mutant life. What we have made is… it’s something like a mutant re-engineering of Kid A and Amnesiac.Well that cleared things up didn’t it? Here’s developers and Arbitrarily Good Productions explaining exactly what is going on. This ain’t ever gonna happen’Īnd the other shoulder sat another saying ‘Oh yes. ![]() Unreal in every sense of the word, especially within the months of almost total human isolation.Ī small Minotaur sat on one shoulder saying ‘This is too mad. Working on something as strange as this over long Zoom calls with a large team of technicians all around the world has been one of the strangest experiences we have ever had. We worked with Sean Evans, a genius video/computer artist who directed it all with awe inspiring dedication and energy, theatre set designer Christine Jones and the game developers and Arbitrarily Good Productions.Īnd finally persuading Epic Games to help us put it out to the world.Įverything that we built came directly from what we made 20 years ago, in one way or another.Īnd we had all the multitrack recordings from the albums so we were able to rebuild the audio from the original elements in a new controlled space which wasn’t just stereo. With Nigel Godrich we have been working on this for about two years, through lockdowns, self-isolations and many very long intermittent Zoom calls. It would be way better if it didn’t actually exist.īecause then it didn’t have to conform to any normal rules of an exhibition. So we changed location – now it would look as if it had crashed into the side of the Royal Albert Hall.īut Westminster council didn’t like the idea one little bit.Īnd then Covid delivered the final annihilation. Radiohead and Epic Games are teaming up for the KID A MNESIA Exhibition, an interactive experience that’s coming on Nov. But first the laws of physics conspired to limit Radiohead’s vision. and recordings to commemorate 21 years of Radioheads Kid A and Amnesiac. The band initially conceived of KID A MNESIA EXHIBITION as a physical exhibit that would start in London and travel the world. And then – being constructed from shipping containers – we could ship it around the world… New York, Tokyo, Paris…īut then we couldn’t fit it at the Victoria & Albert without parts of the museum building collapsing. KID A MNESIA EXHIBITION ( / Playstation / Epic Games Store) is. This astounding steel carapace would be inserted into the urban fabric of London like an ice pick into Trotsky. ![]() It was going to be a huge red construction made by welding shipping containers together, constructed so that it looked as if a brutalist spacecraft had crash-landed into the classical architecture of the Victoria & Albert Museum in Kensington. Radiohead: Kid A Mnesia Exhibition is an upside-down digital/analogue universe created from original artwork and recordings to commemorate 21 years of. To start with, when we first started thinking about it, we intended to build a physical exhibition/installation in a central London location. To mark a period of 21 years since the expulsion of Kid A and Amnesiac from a converted barn in the Oxfordshire countryside into an unsuspecting world we’ve built… something. KID A MNESIA is a fevered dream-space, an edifice, built from the art & creatures, words & recordings of. ![]()
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