Picasso: Untitled / With Sound: El vigía [The Lookout], by Omsk Social Club
El vigía is a hyper-performative itinerant experience developed through a series of sound and verbal scores.
OMSK Social Club is a stewarded and sprawling collective whose artistic practice is created between two lived worlds: one of life as we know it, and one of roleplay. These worlds merge into one, generating a chasm of enquiry that takes the form of a specific immersive methodology, coined in 2017 as “Real Game Play”: collective immersion and the creation of speculative worlds. From these live iterations media relics are harvested, such as films, screenplays and large-scale installations that invoke states and gateways that could be a fiction or a reality not yet lived.
OMSK Social Club works closely with networks of spectators: everything is unique and unrehearsed. The live installations created examine virtual egos, popular experiences and stories with a moral, allowing the works to become dematerialised hybrids of modern-day culture alongside the participants’ unique personal experiences. In the past, the Real Game Play immersive environments of OMSK Social Club have explored landscapes and topics such as memetic visual architectures, cryptoraves, desire and sacrifice, asemic hyper tools, micro-gridded affinity groups, DAOs, and consensus rituals.
The work is accessible in English and Spanish and requires the semi-active presence of listeners. It takes 60 minutes to complete the full journey.
OMSK Social Club, El vigía, 2023
Sound composition, Yikii
Vocal sound recording, Alfie Brooks
Voice-over in Spanish, Ágata Guevara
Graphics, Marijn Degenaar