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Book just one ticket to experience all three installations on Friday and Saturday—each lasting up to 20 minutes. Your one-hour booking secures your spot for the full experience.
Please note: Roots to the Universe by Janmejay, the foyer installation on Wednesday and Thursday, does not require a ticket. See below for times.
Thursday 5th June from 14:30 until 22:00 (unticketed)
Friday and Saturday book your slot as part of the experience of three installations.
Roots to the Universe is an immersive Virtual Reality retelling of the story of creation in the indigenous Gond community’s tradition as narrated by the Pardhans, reimagined in context of the contemporary challenges facing the community. The story reimagines the creation of the world by Bada Dev (the divine Creator) and the impact of human greed on the planet. ‘Roots’ is an allegorical tale that reflects upon contemporary issues facing the indigenous people, with themes of sustainability, indigenous learnings, displacement and greed, through Gond culture’s rich artistic and musical traditions.
Roots has been developed with artwork and guidance from the Pradhans Durgabai Vyam and Subhash Vyam, along with artistic collaboration from Dhira Chakraborty
TongHai GaoTai 2066 is an immersive VR interactive performance that fuses Chinese intangible cultural heritage with advanced immersive technologies. Drawing from the traditional folk performance “GaoTai” (also known as TaiGe) from Tonghai, Yunnan—a ritual practice with over 400 years of history that continues to this day—the work reimagines and reconstructs this heritage within a speculative future.
Set in a virtual landscape in the year 2066, where a desert has swallowed the world, the audience is transported to a ceremonial street lined with robots, where a sacred “GaoTai” performance is unfolding.
The piece invites viewers to enter the same theatrical space from one of three perspectives: Human, Deity, or Machine. Through this triadic structure, the audience embarks on a philosophical journey exploring freedom, gaze, and existence. The Human is granted free-roaming visual access; the Deity is elevated upon the ceremonial platform, becoming the focal point of systemic surveillance; and the Machine is bound by strict algorithmic control—any deviation from its preprogrammed path triggers alarms and disciplinary response. This identity mechanism not only simulates the logic of power distribution in a technological society, but also interrogates the boundary between “free will” and “algorithmic destiny” in a posthuman era.
The inspiration for the work stems from the artist’s childhood memories of participating in the Tonghai GaoTai ritual—originally a community gesture of gratitude for new life, in which children are dressed as deities and paraded through the streets. In real life, only the “chosen” children could ascend the platform and become the center of collective gaze. In the virtual theatre of the future, however, every viewer may “choose” to become a god, or to embody the machine. This structural translation provokes a deeper reflection on the politics of meaning-making, the right to look, and the right to participate.
TongHai GaoTai 2066 is a cultural experiment that reinterprets local ritual into a futuristic theatre of life. Through interactive VR technology, it constructs a philosophical framework of viewing that questions how meaning, freedom, and belief might be redefined in the posthuman age.
The work ultimately poses a central question: In a world shaped by technology, do we still possess the agency to define the meaning of life?
What does it mean to truly feel alive? Can the digital ever capture the depth of such a visceral, fleeting experience, or does it fall short, confined to idealized, static representations?
Vīvus is an immersive, sensory and embodied journey, where participants are invited to connect with the sensation of being alive. As they explore how aliveness manifests in their breath, heartbeat, and energy, it becomes a rite of passage where real-time projection mapping and layered soundscapes evolve in reaction to their emotions.
Through flickering visions, rising voices, and the awakening of movement, they move from disconnection to a collective expression of life and connection. By externalizing and amplifying the sensations of being alive, Vīvus transforms the digital into a dynamic medium that serves as a reminder of our human nature and a reflection on how we might use the digital to amplify—not replace—the emotional richness that defines us.
VIVUS is not a story to watch, but a feeling to remember. A ritual of return. A collective act of aliveness.