On the third day the engineer is discovered alone by
the listening pool. He is strangely downcast;
like a flower with a broken stem.

“I don’t know the origins of any of this” he says
“I am confused by the world”

There is an inescapable logic. It insists itself.
Beguiling as this world can be, only blinded by denial
can we absorb ourselves enough to pretend to not know it.

Tomorrow the engineer will be gone.

The work of Simon Wilkinson - known as CiRCA69 - incorporates audiovisual, installation, VR, AR, Ai, electronic music, online and performance mediums, often combining multiple approaches simultaneously to create highly immersive narrative environments which invite prolonged audience engagement.

Wilkinson’s work has been featured at Tate Modern, and regularly tours internationally with his most recently completed collection of virtual reality installations, Whilst The Rest Were Sleeping, enjoying a 20 nation world tour across six continents throughout 2016 and 2017.

He is currently in production of a new gallery based VR installation entitled The Third Day.