Kissing Nature is an interactive performance installation by Karen Lancel and Hermen Maat and a hopeful narrative about future empathic connections between people, plants and technology. Plants are known to respond to human bodies, sound, touch and behavior. The installation, a baroque mini-jungle of ferns from the forests of Oranjewoud, invites participants to explore a new embodied "empathy practice" with plants.
Kissing and caressing
During the performance, participants wear EEG headsets while kissing, caressing and hugging. Their brain activity and plant biofeedback data (CO₂ and oxygen) are measured in real-time and translated into a shared algorithm and data sonification. This interaction between brain and plant biofeedback co-creates a unique, immersive soundscape - a planetary Empathy Symphony, in which humans and plants explore together a yet unknown, but shared sensory experience.
Performers
- Lancel/Maat, artist duo More about www.lancelmaat.nl
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