About the Project
Kunda Valley 2025 The Time Traveller's Inn
The initiation of Studio Pilz. Our first installation, and one born under truly unique circumstances. We were invited to dress the biggest yurt in the southern hemisphere; a structure that had been swallowed by a great flood two years prior and rebuilt by the hands of the farm owners. The farm is layed out like the line of the chakras, with the yurt placed at the sacral chakra: the center of creation. You can feel the energy the land holds the moment you arrive. Kunda Valley’s name is short for Kundalini, the primal energy or life force. Amongst eagles, snakes, leopards and under the creative lead of @cinzia_cioffi & @stephfichardt, the Time Traveller’s Inn was born.
After an initiation ceremony led by an indigenous shaman, visitors were welcomed into the Yurt — and from there, transported into any time they could possibly dream of. Here, our Zeitghost was born.
The piece comprises two vintage CRT televisions displaying generative, audio-reactive visuals converted from HDMI to RF signal. The title, a portmanteau of "zeitgeist" and "ghost", plays with notions of time travel, temporal disruption and a ‘ghost in the machine’. Visuals are novel, generated in real-time - no loops, repetitions or pre-animated sequences.
The play of modern software living through retro hardware pulls spectators in two directions: backward into memory, forward into the unknown. There is something disorienting about watching something so alive flicker through something so old. The Zeitghost lives in that gap, somewhere between nostalgia and the not-yet-imagined.
