Confessional Alter: Demoop du Soul
Jacob Hanshaw and Looking Up Arts
Location
12:49 1500', Open Playa
12:49 1500', Open Playa · open full map →
Directions
1.23 mi · 26 min walk · 10 min bike
From
6:00 & H
No fix yet — showing from home
- 1Take 6:00 toward the Man to Esplanade · 0.49 mi
- 2Head across the open playa to Confessional Alter: Demoop du Soul, straight toward the Man (bearing 54°) · 0.74 mi
- ●Arrive: Confessional Alter: Demoop du Soul · 12:50, open playa
1.23 mi as the crow flies. Radials every :15, walking ~2.8 mph, biking ~7.5 mph. Open the live compass map →
About
An art nouveau altar-shaped circus wagon containing three confessional booths and a reflection area intended to provide a space for vulnerability, connection, and self-reconciliation outside of any authority structures. Confessors are given the option to speak directly or anonymously through an AI proxy which rephrases (for instance as a pirate or in haiku) and inevitably distorts communication, raising the question of how much is gained and lost in digital encounters. The absurdity or frustration of the AI may drive them to drop the veil of the artificial for a heart-to-heart connection or they may find joy in the play of a pirate haiku telephone game of soul searching in an ornate circus wagon in the middle of a desert.
- From
- San Francisco, CA, United States
- Category
- Open Playa
- Program
- Honorarium