Who knew there was a 17,000 square-foot bunker under the polo fields where the Coachella festival is held? Radiohead knew: it’s been chosen as the space for the debut of their new ‘Kid A Mnesia’ audiovisual installation.
Well, not entirely new. The installation was originally launched in virtual form by Epic Games in 2021 for consoles and computers, featuring films and artworks from the band’s ‘Kid A’ and ‘Amnesiac’ albums.
However, the virtual launch was by necessity – these were lockdown days – and the original idea was to make it a physical exhibition. That’s what’s happening this year, starting in the Coachella bunker.
‘Kid A Mnesia’ is the film, and ‘Motion Picture House’ is the name of the full installation built to house it. According to Thom Yorke, the narrative is that “a Monster is trapped in a derelict museum of the lost & forgotten”.
After Coachella, the exhibition will visit Brooklyn, Chicago, Mexico City and San Francisco between May this year and February next.
It sounds amazing, so expect to see plenty of posts on social me… Oh, wait, don’t.
“All photos and videos from inside the exhibition are prohibited,” notes the Motion Picture House website. “Camera stickers will be applied to each phone entering Motion Picture House.”
Instead, any visuals from the installation will be concentrated in its own profiles on Instagram, Threads, Facebook and TikTok. A YouTube trailer has also been released this week.
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