| 07/06/2025 – 14/09/2025|
Infinity isn’t what it used to be. It’s better.
Verkade and Waldron-Hall’s installation playfully investigates ideas of digital personae, legacy, fear and consumerism within an imagined product – a purchasable digital afterlife – pushed by a sinister corporation.
Following their 2023 collaborative project, say when you can feel it, which investigated ASMR, digital intimacy and hyper-proximity, New Age Memorial Service™ combines writing – through obituary, elegy, marketing and contractual agreement – with 3D-animated surreal films to explore a speculative world in which we can purchase ‘digital echoes’ – avatars that preserve our physical traits, personalities, hopes and dreams. Fragmented animations reflect hybridised lives, overlapping between real and digital worlds and peering into two customers’ aspirations and worries to present imprecise yet authentic portraits of who they were, both on and offline, prompting us to think: would I pay for this?
Jacques Verkade and Callan Waldron-Hall, 2025
Photo credit: Benjamin Nuttall 2025
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