lightness

Project Haze

Project Haze

Project Haze is a site-specific immersive mixed-media installation that tries to invoke the feeling of 'lightness' among its users.

The installation, which works both a day as well as a night installation, takes inspiration from Gaston Bachelard's 'Poetics of Air' and explores the notion of using mist to create a 'ganzfeld effect'. In such a situation, the audience gets separated from their surroundings and immersed in a uniform stimulation field of sound, light, and touch. The result is a heightened sensory perception of all the senses and the flow of individual imagination.

The day installation relies on sunlight and wind to create movement in the mist which seems to immerse from the ground and fly upwards lifting the observer with them. The cool sensation of minute water droplets steals the heat from the sun, leaving a cooling sensation with them, the lack of obstacles allows them to play and explore the 'materiality of the cloud'. The viewer also has a chance to spot a circular rainbow against the sun, which seems to participate in their movement adding more delight to the experience.

During the night, the artist uses projection mapping to introduce volume to an otherwise invisible installation which again reinforces the principles of sensorial engagement, freedom in seclusion, and the materiality of mist with its audience.

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