Let’s Get Lost

Let’s Get Lost features a group of performers equipped with wearable live-streaming webcams, GPS trackers and old-school pagers. Blindfolded and stripped of monetary resources, the performers are transferred to a remote area and left with one mission: to find their way back to the audience, depending on the kindness of strangers.

Meanwhile, audience members are tasked with helping the performers by sending messages, giving directions and even calling businesses in the vicinity of the performer to request their support.

In a world dominated by digital addictions, instantaneous and infinite access to knowledge (and Google Maps!), Let’s Get Lost takes a critical look at our tendency to avoid being lost. While constant online connectivity, information overload and a false sense of certainty has become the norm, Let’s Get Lost posits that uncertainty in life is both healthy and essential for building resilience.

Let’s Get Lost is being developed with BASE in Milan, Italy in collaboration with 35 young people, and Homo Novus in Riga, Latvia. The project was conceived from ideas explored in phase one of our Mammalian Droppings initiative with Homo Novus, continuing that partnership.

Collaborators include: Darren O’Donnell, Alice Fleming, Isabel Ahat, Virginia Antonipillai, Ngawang Luding, alongside Tech Consultant David Mesiha and digital artist Zia Gul Sadeqi.