transumer was a site specific intervention which encouraged audiences to clandestinely take over their city. armed with a smartphone programmed with augmented reality capability, participants were invited to roam the area, plot the end of their city and create networks revealing strategies for a modern day insurrection.
inspired by an anonymous book written by the invisible committee in 2007, part anti-materialist manifesto and part manual for revolution, titled ‘the coming insurrection’, pvi activated the books’ philosophies by instigating a mass experiment where we could risk everything and no-one got hurt. a tactical media work, transumer aimed to resonate beyond the site to affect participants on a personal and political level, transforming them from passive consumers into would-be revolutionaries.
