Alessiapocalypse (Wordhole)

The very concept of apocalypse is particularly rooted in our minds, mainly due to the influence of the media, which often tend to emphasise the decline of our society, the constant threat of any weapon of mass destruction, all surrounded by the effects of rampant consumerism. We all live a post-modern daily life, surrounded by catastrophic images that only feed the vision we have of a society that is now adrift, in which all is lost, the constant feeling that we could see the world explode at any moment.
We are all waiting for an imminent apocalypse, a 'purification', fueled by the desire of society to renew itself, from the ground up, completely destroy itself and then be reborn in a better form. The apocalypse becomes a symbol, however, an excellent tool for generating a new imagery, a new vision of the future. Let's be reale, paranoia is addicting, people don't enjoy free happiness, they need the misery to go on, to get to a balance.
I chose, out of all the available themes, that of the apocalypse because it is, for me, partly an oxymoron of what the concept of 'active archiving' is. The apocalypse is a wave that leaves no escape, it is a possibility of creating the new, the future from scratch, while 'archiving' is the desire to keep the past as an active tool for the future. These two concepts do not match, and it is, I believe, from this clash that some excellent ideas might arise as to what an archive really is, why archiving, what "deserves" for real to survive and be archived.
I think it could be really nice to speak about how we don't have infinite resources, as Senka said, so why are we using our resources to make the radio worm archive an active one.
An apocalypse theme to play a little bit with the "erasing of data", the "data loss" we are facing because of digital obsolescence, the potential loss of knowledge, the fragmentation of the archive. With an immersive installation, of a (post)apocalyptic landscape, without losing the hopeful vibe, a possible positive athmosphere for the audience, getting rid of that anxiety of preserving everything, could be a good idea.
It may be evocative in a possible installation to present a story, a narrative, a path, to let the worm community think about the archiving process of their own products, how difficult that is to do, how massive and messy is the archive, celebrate the Community, Community that is the only thing that is goint to survive the apocalypse for sure.