Radiohead Detail Touring ‘KID A MNESIA’ Immersive Art Installation
Radiohead have announced their plans to bring KID A MNESIA into the real world with a touring exhibition of the immersive film and art installation. The project, originally released in 2021 as a virtual experience for PS5, PC and Mac accompanying the combined reissue of 2000’s Kid A and 2001’s Amnesiac, will premiere at this year’s Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival with Motion Picture House, an audiovisual installation built to house it. After its presentations over the next two weekends, Motion Picture House and KID A MNESIA will move on to limited runs in four North American cities.
KID A MNESIA is a film directed by Sean Evans and comprising Thom Yorke and Stanley Donwood’s visual artworks created around the pivotal albums that serve as its soundtrack. Motion Picture House will reconfigure the digital atmosphere for physical spaces, complete with galleries of the full-scale artwork and a custom 6-point surround system for which the music was newly remixed. Yorke describes the walk-through narrative as one “in which a Monster is trapped in a derelict museum of the lost & forgotten.”
At Coachella, Motion Picture House will stage inside the Coachella Bunker, a new, actual 17,000-square-foot subterranean bunker space beneath the festival grounds. Following its premiere, the installation will move on to Brooklyn, N.Y.’s Agger Fish Building from May 6-31, Chicago’s Cinespace Studio from July 30 to Aug. 23, Mexico City’s La Maravilla Studios from Oct. 27 to Nov. 15 and San Francisco’s Palace of Fine Arts from Jan. 14 to Feb. 7.
Fans can pre-register for tickets to KID A MNESIA through April 12 at 11:59 p.m. PT; pre-registrants will be randomly selected for access to the presale, beginning on Wednesday, April 22. A general on-sale will follow on Friday, April 24 at 10 a.m. local. Learn more at kida-mnesia.com.
