This shall be a flash mob like no other. Mostly because it’s going to go for a *really* long time, and it’s not going to be a quick three-minute affair that you catch on Me-Straw. It’s not going to be some quick little distraction, oh no…this is going to be a true event. A really long event. An EXTRA-long event.

I have no idea how we’re going to do this. The basic details are that we want to host a holographic disco in Federation Square that will teach people about their own insecurities and possibly environmentalism, depending on the dance. It’ll spring up overnight, just a whole load of holograms of people dancing, and anyone can go and join them. Live-streaming everything, of course.

Our main problem at the moment is power generation. That’s just what we get for being artistic pioneers. Of course, if you’re looking for commercial solar energy, Melbourne is the place to be at the moment. I’m loving the new exhibition that they’ve got going with the giant battery that people can charge up by riding the exercise bikes, and it’s actually not too far away from Fed Square. A shining beacon of energy storage, is what I said to the people in charge when I had the meeting with them. It didn’t work. Apparently they ‘need the power for something’, were their words, or not. That was a paraphrase. So that’s pretty mysterious, and we still don’t really know how we’re going to provide power to our world-changing disco without a really, really, really long and illegal extension cord running all the way to my place in the eastern suburbs. Probably not.

Solar power, maybe? Industrial solar has made leaps and bounds in the last few years, maybe even enough to sustain a few hundred holograms.

I mean, let’s hope so. Our holographic disco for social change is going to be pretty awful without any holograms.

-Eila