Apophenia

Audiovisual performance | 30:00 | 2025

Apophenia is an A/V performance that leans into the fragility of perception, inviting the audience to inhabit a space of uncertainty and porous boundaries. It explores pareidolia - a type of apophenia which explains the perceptual tendency to impose a meaningful interpretation on a nebulous stimulus - through a harsh noise aesthetic. The latter blurs temporal references and gives way to a multitude of auditory hallucinations through its unshakeable physical presence, where sound is felt as much in the body as it is heard by the ears. Generated through real-time analog synthesis, the sound environment carries qualities reminiscent of wind—shifting, immersive, and intangible. It is paired with wintry visuals that alternate between film, computer-generated 3D landscapes, and an audio-reactive particle system, keeping the audience in a continuous state of uncertainty about what they are seeing and hearing.