Institute of Isolation
Institute of Isolation
Institute of Isolation is an observational documentary that contemplates whether isolation, or extreme experience, may be a gateway to training human resilience.
On a Mars mission when four people travel for decades in a confined space, what are the physiological and mental repercussions? Our bodies are not designed to exist permanently off Earth.
Set in a near future reality, Institute of Isolation is a fictional research and training ground, offering alternative methods to condition the body and adapt fundamental aspects of human biology. The film references genetic engineering, space travel, sensory deprivation and the changing relationship the body is forming with technology.
The film’s protagonist (played by artist Lucy McRae) moves through a series of sensory chambers, spending time in an anechoic chamber examining the psychoacoustics of silence, and in a microgravity trainer conditioning the body for possible life in space. These fictional locations are used to make architectural inquiries into the role buildings could have on altering human biology on an evolutionary scale.
McRae (the protagonist) moves through a series of sensory chambers spending time in an anechoic chamber examining the psychoacoustics of silence or in a self–invented microgravity trainer conditioning the body for possible life in space. These fictional locations explore whether the design of isolation into buildings could play a role in advancing human biology on an evolutionary scale.
