Palu Ángel Taizōkai
Keiken
London | Berlin
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Palu Ángel Taizōkai
Keiken
London | Berlin
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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
About the Artist(s)
The artist collective Keiken was founded in 2015 by Tanya Cruz, Hana Omori, and Isabel Ramos. The word “keiken” translated from Japanese means “experience” which is at the heart of the collective’s artistic practice. Using films, games, installations, extended reality, blockchain and performance, they are building and imagining speculative worlds that pierce perceptions of reality and defy everything known. Keiken’s work is exhibited and performed internationally. In 2021, they won the CHANEL Next Prize, and in 2022, they became residents at Somerset House, London.