Operation Kata-tropical (Aural) Bloom [ÖK(^)B]

Operation Kata-tropical (Aural) Bloom [ÖK(^)B] is a (serious) game, a digital archive, an exhibition, and an artwork. Beginning in the deep future, in the year 26777, the gameplay experience is centred on the forgotten architecture of the historical St. Joseph’s Institution, allowing players to navigate the site as an apparition reclaimed by natural forces. This space also functions as a digital archive of architectural and oral histories, documenting foundational elements of material and immaterial culture. As an exhibition, the virtual space hosts artworks that challenge institutional ownership of these cultural artifacts.

As an artwork in its own right, ÖK(^)B is a para-fictional descent into lost pasts, speculative futures, and alternative realities. Occupied by architectural fragments and immersive sonic events, hallucinated identities and spectral whispers, this meta-artwork engages with historical facts and traumas through possible worlds and persisting objects.

The forest is alive, and as such, ÖK(^)B is always changing. Throughout the game witness the presence of current and past explorers navigating the site. With each visit, take note of the atmospheric changes as real-time weather data influences the virtual environment. Beware the reverse flow of time because as the present moment approaches, entropy erodes the surrounding world and its inherent possibilities.

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