Now one of the world’s most important centers of trade, Rilao has built a floating port-district separate from the main archipelago, connected to the rest of city by underwater Maglev trains. It is an entirely self-sufficient system that generates its energy and reuses all its resources.
The military in the Rilao has, ever since Lao oil discovered an endless source of Muka oil, helped out occasionally to load barrels of oil on to ships, as a strengthening “warcry.” They would sing “muka, muka, muka.” And so too would the whales, as their own “warcry”.
Aaron Fooshee, Jane Kachmer, Marlise McCormick, Chris Farmer
Uses borrowed assets, under Freesound.org license terms.
After zipping to the marina on the cable car lines people randomly enter the Bollu game. As the zippers land, they drop onto an interactive surface. This document is live and acts to direct the new players to the optimal place within the game.
Heather, Gigi, Amy, Amanda, Mohammed, Terry
In attempts to deal with increasing anxiety, family members, colleagues, and friends deposit DNA samples in a bank in the event that somebody is “disappeared” in punishment for a crume. This deposit is used to regenerate a person in the event of their casting away.
Supplicants for a missing person must post their appeal publicly before the extra-governmental town hall hearing. The final judgement is also posted publicly so people know whether any regenerated citizen they come across is illegally alive.
Media: Chris Noessel, Daniel Suarez, Aubry Mintz, Hannu Rahaniemi
Underwater maglev trains power fish farms, which are owned by wealthy merchants of Lauguna. In 2045 hungry people ride on top of the underwater trains using hybrid tech-organic DIY breathing apparatus and kite nets to poach fish.
Alina Levy, Iain Nash, Brett Kincaid
“The person served as a disruptive billionaire who secretly used the inn as a portal to another society”.
Jeffrey Frankel
Evin McMullen
A poster created by the Rilao underground exposing the subversive business practices of local billionaire, Armando Corallo, who is no friend of the people, despite his charitable ways.
A newspaper article from the Rilaon Times covering the expose of a embryo storage facility tied to an anti-Lao religious organization.
Mark Huber, Michelle Vu, Patricia Wang, Evan Falstrup, Carol Falstrup, Geoff Manaugh, David Falstrup
A center for trade and transport, Rilao’s floating district thus is also the center for sexual pleasure. A-must-visit for all merchants and tourists is its esteemed nightclub Elysium, owned, designed and run by famous experimental film director Dave Lynch. Famed for its allowance for all sexual preferences…
Kevin Tian
Heather Barker
Philippe Bergeron
Judy Cosgrove
Ronni Kimm
Anne White
To celebrate the anniversary of Raymond Lao’s “discovery” of Rilao his vision for an oil power in the pacific, a flag featuring a large droplet of oil & the Independent Lao Oil Co. logo is waved in a parade staged by Lao’s right – wing at the fair disciples. This flag flies on major government buildings, imprinted on all the (?) that travel.
Kristin Grimlund
Frank Vitz
Ryan Ulyate
Matt Wilkinson
Joey Mann
In attempts to deal with increasing anxiety, family members, colleagues, and friends deposit stem cells/DNA samples in the bank such that in the event that somebody is “disappeared” in punishment for a crime. This is meant to regenerate that person, in the event of their casting away.
Daniel Suarez, Aubry Mintz, Hannu Rahaniemi, Chris Noessel
Text by Kirsten Everberg
The area was a dumping ground for left over resources and unused parts from industry in years past. The dumped material created phosphorescent, and electronic reactive dyes and colorants. Zda illegally mines these chemicals to use in his body art work. He inadvertently discovers new valuable resource and the new government threatens his work.
Ted Braun, Shane Valdes
