ENGLAND’S COUNCIL OF LEGISLATION AND GOVERNING BODY OF HYPER REAL SIMULATIONS AND CONSTRUCTS

ENGLAND’S COUNCIL OF LEGISLATION AND GOVERNING BODY OF HYPER REAL SIMULATIONS AND CONSTRUCTS [2021 – ongoing]

ENGLAND’S COUNCIL OF LEGISLATION AND GOVERNING BODY OF HYPER REAL SIMULATIONS AND CONSTRUCTS [aka ecolagbohrsac2021] is a sprawling, ongoing multimedia project exploring the shifting boundaries between reality, simulation, and governance in an increasingly synthetic world. It stages an imagined bureaucratic body tasked with overseeing the laws, ethics, and evolution of hyperreal environments while exploring the strange bureaucracies of a post-truth era, where simulations have not only replaced the real, but begun to collapse under their own excess.

Drawing from themes of hyperreality, cyber-hauntology, and vaporware aesthetics, ecolagbohrsac2021 mimics and exaggerates the failed rituals of governance in a world where authenticity has become both unattainable and irrelevant.

Installations like Council’s Cryptolith serve as artefacts of this speculative world, resembling monuments left behind by long-forgotten administrative bodies. These static forms are activated through ceremonial A/V performances, live rituals, and online portals that function as bureaucratic dream spaces—half remembered, half corrupted. Visitors are invited to navigate absurd official procedures, cryptic mandates, and echoing simulations, becoming participants in a broken system that nonetheless exerts a strange kind of emotional pull.

ecolagbohrsac2021s rituals often embrace contradictions: boredom and euphoria, stillness and overflow, anxiety and transcendence. By engaging with the absurd and ceremonial structures of fictional governance, the project echoes real-world patterns of institutional failure while suggesting the possibility of unexpected novelty within collapse. Each “department” or “initiative” launched by ecolagbohrsac2021 functions simultaneously as critique and invitation, tracing how official narratives disintegrate while also offering new, strange pathways for meaning-making.

Influenced by hauntological thought and early Internet dreamscapes, ecolagbohrsac2021’s aesthetic draws heavily on the language of ruins: broken hyperlinks, corrupted files, ghostly sonic textures, and decaying administrative imagery. However, the project is less about mourning the lost utopias of the past and more about inhabiting the fertile ruins they leave behind. In these ruined spaces, the Council seeks to nurture radical novelty, not as a return to “authenticity,” but as a living, breathing negotiation with the hyperreal.

Sound and audiovisual elements are critical in evoking these states. Procedural soundscapes, distorted bureaucratic announcements, spectral melodies, and glitches operate like the subconscious languages of ecolagbohrsac2021s body. They are less about guiding audiences and more about creating spaces for drift, dissociation, and sudden reconnection. By treating sound, image, and ritual as mutable constructs, the Council refuses to offer fixed meaning, instead curating conditions where participants might stumble into their own ecstatic interpretations.

Rather than presenting a fixed or finalized world, ecolagbohrsac2021 is an evolving body of work: a living, feral institution that continuously mutates through new iterations, media forms, and collaborative interventions. Performances blur into durational experiences; website “departments” glitch into fragmented archives; public notices become audio hauntings. Each manifestation questions who—or what—governs memory, reality, and identity in a hypermediated, post-authentic landscape.