This latest art exhibition is to die for.
An Australian artist brings the experience of death to life with a participatory virtual reality simulator, showing people what it’s like to die.
Artist Shaun Gladwell’s ‘Passing Electrical Storms’ show on the National Gallery of Victoria in Melbourne could conjure up the dying process with ‘medical technology’ Based on official description.
“This interactive work, meditative and disturbing at the identical time, takes participants through a simulated de-escalation of life, from cardiac arrest to brain death,” reads the outline of the exhibition on the gallery’s website.
Gladwell described the experience as “moving away from yourself after which floating away into a huge universe” in an interview with Australian this week.
“Simulating death because the experience in its previous few minutes, it is a meditation on the transience of individual life,” said Gladwell. “For me, it is not all bleak, however the spectrum of colours and moods.”
He said his latest work is inspired by philosophers comparable to Jean Baudrillard, Michel Foucault and David Chalmers.
![Australia's new virtual reality will show you what it's like to die.](https://nypost.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/NYPICHPDPICT000008860713.jpg?w=1024)
Nevertheless, he also admitted that his work modified due to his 11-year-old son Zenon.
“Due to him, my job has modified seismically,” said Gladwell. “I feel of death in a distinct sense; now it’s personal because life is so dear to me.”
Upon reaching the exhibition, visitors to the gallery are asked to lie down on a fake hospital bed and are connected to heart rate monitors. Every day Star.
Nevertheless, visitors can leave at any time if it gets too uncomfortable, and there are even staff readily available to “get you out of it,” in response to the outlet.
on TikTok, one user named Marcus even showed the exhibition to his observers by recording a video of the room where all of it happens.
Inside, you can see people lying on blue beds with their heads stuck in virtual reality simulators.
Next to the beds are large computers that resemble hospital monitors.
![Created by artist Shaun Gladwell, the exhibition simulates what it's like to experience a heart attack.](https://nypost.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/NYPICHPDPICT000008860639.jpg?w=603)
![One TikTok user who went to the exhibition wrote about what the experience was like.](https://nypost.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/NYPICHPDPICT000008860640.jpg?w=603)
IN one other videoMarcus explained what it’s like to experience the simulation that follows a heart attack.
“What happens is you lie down, the bed vibrates, you are flat, the doctors step on you, you can see yourself wearing goggles, and so they attempt to revive you,” he explained.
“It doesn’t work, you then fly past some into space and yes, it goes on, but I’m not going to spoil all of it,” Marcus continued.
![The exhibition shows people lying in hospital beds with their heads in virtual reality.](https://nypost.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/NYPICHPDPICT000002079239.jpg?w=1024)
He also added that he understands why some people feel it can cause “anxiety” and “panic” and agreed that the simulation “borders” on those feelings if you’re there.
The Post contacted Gladwell and Marcus for further comments.
This is not the primary time Gladwell has created a provocative exhibition.
In 2017, his virtual reality experience called “Orbital Vanitas” took users to an actual human skull.
Comparison of 1 news site it’s to the allegory of Plato’s cave.
It was an official selection on the 2017 Cannes Film Festival.
Gladwell first rose to fame with the 2000 “Storm Sequence” video cover, in which he skateboards on a Sydney beach as a storm rolls in.