This interactive installation, specially designed by the artist collective Keiken for the Incubation Pod, combines two immersive, meditative works which invite visitors to delve into speculative forms of existence and to explore new realms of perception and consciousness.
‘Bet(a) Bodies’ are artificial meta-wombs that visitors can wear and that emit sound frequencies and vibrations across the body. Those sounds stem from animal species such as bats, dolphins, crickets, and frogs, which communicate via ultrasound. As a kind of empathy device, the ‘Bet(a) Bodies’ activate animal, instinctual and emotional parts of the brain.
The new VR work ‘Taizōkai’ uses 360° glasses and bone sound conduction to dream up landscapes of a “protopian” world – a better future world that is not striving to be perfect.

Palu Ángel Taizōkai is part of the curated art program “Incubation Pod. Dreaming worlds” at the Museum Angewandte Kunst, which gathers different artistic ideas, spaces and worlds in the form of interactive installations, virtual realities and performances. The whole program and tickets are available here.

Photo: ©Keiken