Immersive art experience tackles fake news, changing technologies and hyped politics in the heart of Northbridge

Part performance art, part installation, part rave: FAKE is a real-time deep-dive into alternative truths, artificial intelligence, the art of scams, conspiracy theories, and distorted reality in general. It acts as both as societal critique and awesome stimulation and takes interactive performance art to the next level.

Inside Perth venue The Rechabite’s Goodwill Club, FAKE will immerse patrons into a world of multiple simultaneous realities.

Real-time AI generation and live web scrapes from site such as TikTok, 4chan and Reddit, mixed in with news broadcasts and audience audio and video submissions, this immersive experience offers a brilliant snapshot of what the world is believing right now.

The project assembles an array of leading WA artists using technology’s creative potential to capture and critique societal and political constructs to craft an intrinsically unique intermedia work.

We and the world we live in are in a state of chaos and conflict – at both geopolitical and personal levels and admit the ever-changing economics, political hyperbole, uncertain news and celebrity scandals, the word ‘Fake’ crops up a lot.

Says FAKE event creator Mark Haslam, “For me, it is vital that work responds to this situation, and in FAKE we do so in real-time, creating a genuinely new, ultra-responsive work every night.”

Being dubbed ‘electronic visual theatre’, FAKE is immersive art at its finest. Be a part of something big, trippy and fully tech-related. Oh, and for the record, none of this article was written by AI, and the exhibition is definitely real.

Michael Mastess

FAKE is on at the Goodwill Club, The Rechabite, 224 William Street Northbridge from 23-25 May, 7pm each night. Tickets are available here.