Social media users have been creeped out by a travelling indoor beach that allows spectators to watch half-naked men and women in what has been dubbed a 'prison for the super-rich.'
The festival called Sun & Sea: Operatic transports an indoor beach to various art galleries for spectators to watch people in their swimming costumes spending time on the sand.
It's an interactive experience that aims to teach people about the relationship people have with the planet and attempts to demonstrate 'the threat climate change presents and the dangers we face if it is ignored".
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A video of the event shows adults lying on sun loungers and towels, while children are playing in the sand with their toys half buried in it.
However, it seems to have given some people the wrong impression as people on Facebook and Twitter have been freaking out over the preview, which also features a woman singing an eerie-sounding song.
One person wrote: "You’ve got people packed in, and some people watching them like they’re at the beach but they’re not at the beach, they’re in a building with sand in it.
"Without a doubt, this has to be the strangest footage I’ve seen in my whole life … It’s pretty crazy, pretty wild, pretty out there."
Another person claimed it looked more like a "prison for the super-rich".
A third said: "It's just a place to keep certain people out. This shows how far backwards we have become as a people."
However, the artwork has already been exhibited and has received some great reviews in Reykjavik, Moscow and London and is set to come to Helsinki, Barcelona and Lisbon.
One viewer wrote: "Sun & Sea, from Lithuania in @LIFTfestival is like nothing I’ve ever seen and I adored it. From a balcony we look down on a sweltering beach.
"Holidaymakers sing operatic songs of loneliness, endings and environmental loss. That’s all. So daring; so beautiful. Mesmeric."
New York Times critic Jason Farago wrote: "Sun & Sea remains one of the greatest achievements in performance of the last 10 years: wry, seductive and cunning in ways that reveal themselves days or years later.
"This is a performance that makes the extinction of the species feel as agreeable as a perfect pop song, and as unforgettable, too."
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The official description of the event reads describes the event as: "A crowded beach, the burning sun, bright bathing suits and sweaty brows and legs. Tired limbs sprawling lazily across a sea of towels. The rumble of a volcano, or of an aeroplane, or a speedboat.
"The squeal of children, laughter, the sound of an ice cream van in the distance. Sunbathers sing languid songs of worry, of boredom, of almost nothing.
"Songs of early morning flights and half-eaten sandwiches in the sand, the crinkling of plastic bags whirling in the air then floating silently, jellyfish-like below the waterline. Stories that glide between the mundane, the sinister and the surreal.
"Witness from above as an afternoon at the beach reveals a mesmerising exploration of the relationship between us and our planet."
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