Radiohead’s bunker piece
Photos from Coachella show visitors seated and lying inside Radiohead’s 'Motion Picture House: Kid A Mnesia' immersive installation, indicating people are entering and staying in the space. (pressenterprise.com) A Day‑3 photo roundup reiterated that festival coverage continued to treat art as a central part of the weekend, underlining the installation’s role as a destination rather than a brief stunt. (pressenterprise.com)
At Coachella, Radiohead’s bunker piece is operating less like a walk-through stunt and more like a room people settle into. (ocregister.com) The project is called “Motion Picture House: Kid A Mnesia,” and it opened at the festival in Indio on Friday, April 10, inside a new underground bunker beneath the Empire Polo Fields. Radiohead said all Coachella ticket holders could enter. (variety.com) The installation centers on a 75-minute film built from artwork Thom Yorke and Stanley Donwood made during the “Kid A” and “Amnesiac” era, with audio remixed from the original multitracks for a custom six-point surround system. The bunker itself measures 17,000 square feet with 38-foot ceilings. (variety.com) Coachella has long treated visual art as part of the event’s core programming, not as side décor. On the festival’s art page, organizers say curators commission large-scale works that function as landmarks and public space across the grounds. (coachella.com) That framing helps explain why the bunker kept surfacing in weekend coverage alongside fashion and performances. The Orange County Register’s on-site report described festivalgoers climbing the grass-covered mound above it for selfies and views before heading inside. (ocregister.com) The piece also closes a loop on a project that first arrived in digital form in 2021. Radiohead’s announcement said “Kid A Mnesia” had originally been intended for a physical space before the pandemic pushed it into a virtual release on personal computers, Mac computers, and PlayStation 5. (variety.com) This is not a surprise set, and Radiohead are not billed to perform inside it. The band’s role here is the film, the sound design and the artwork, not a live concert. (rollingstone.com) After Coachella, the installation is scheduled to move to Brooklyn from May 6 to May 31, Chicago from July 30 to August 23, Mexico City from October 27 to November 15, and San Francisco from January 14 to February 7, 2027. Those dates turn the bunker debut into the first stop of a longer North American run. (kida-mnesia.com)
