Part of the Barbican’s exhibition, Into The Unknown: A Journey Through Science Fiction, this installation by Conrad Shawcross is hidden 2 floors away from the rest of the show in The Pit so needs a bit of an effort to get down there.
I entered a dark space, where a kind of growling, almost animalistic sound came from a constantly moving machine in the middle of a henge made of lightweight perforated screens.
The “creature” explores its space with a slow-moving probe, all the while making these sounds between organic and machine.
It’s worth seeing this installation after the main show as your mind is already full of the imagery and tuned in to strangeness and connection with alien life forms.
