Name: Cockaigne: The Land of Plenty
Start: 2027-02-25
End: 2027-03-21
Location: ILA | Immersive Light and Art

When

25 Feb - 21 Mar

Where

ILA | Immersive Light and Art

Access

Venue & access info here

Tickets

Adult

$25

Concession

$20

Transaction fees apply.

For session times and tickets visit immersivelightandart.com.au.

Warnings

This installation uses camera-based sensing of audience movement to drive the artwork. Sensing is behavioural only: no facial recognition is used, no individuals are identified, and no images are retained. Contains AI-generated imagery. A low-light environment with bright, large-scale LED screens. Some sequences depict storm imagery that may include frequent lightning flashes.

Australia

In the medieval fantasy land of Cockaigne, roast geese flew into open mouths and rivers ran with wine. It was a worker’s dream of plenty without labour. Cockaigne: The Land of Plenty revisits that dream as the promise is renewed by the barons of Artificial Intelligence. Visitors stand between two screens: one displaying a vast AI-generated landscape that shifts between scarcity and excess, the other revealing how the algorithm renders them as data, measuring Collective Mood, Coherence Index and Solidarity.

The landscape is watching. The sensing system reads the crowd’s collective behaviour and the world on the wall responds, but the rules are never explained. Why does paradise appear? As visions of plenty are offered, Cockaigne reflects a world shaped by invisible systems that monitor, score and influence us, without ever revealing the trade-offs.