ERNST LIMA
Extracts of the sounddesign for EDEN an online smartphone retreat
EDEN is a smartphone-based retreat installation conceived as part of an ongoing body-screen practice. The artist Christiane Peschek observes the digitisation of the wellness industry and the peculiar fate of the current age: locating spirituality within the smartphone. The religious fervour that motivates fitness seekers to use workout apps has extended the sacralised human condition to include the mental state as well.
With EDEN, the artist explores the possibility of memorialising an on-screen version of the self that also embodies consciousness. Engaging with the concept of virtual longevity, EDEN transposes the search for a perfect mind-body condition into an audio-visual journey toward a net-based paradise imagined as the final destination.
Each journey offers a unique experience—an individual path to overcoming physical extinction; a purification process that demands contemplation, belief, and trust.
EXPERIENCE EDEN: https://enter-eden.net/