“I’d like to thank you for this ethereal, otherworldly experience… I loved every aspect of it: from its physicality, sensuality, intimacy to its mind-blowing graphics… it was extraordinary to experience a dream while still awake!”
Audience at Nordic Panorama Festival 2019, Talgat Subanaliev
Mystical Touch is a 20-minute immersive one-on-one mixed-reality performance for awakening high-level sensory awareness. The audience are equipped with a virtual reality headset, wireless headphone, and a vibration vest – then the audience blindfolded enter the ritual installation space to encounter mystical touch-points of energetic transformation. In a direct and personal meeting with the performer Jakob la Cour, the audience is taken on an intimate techno-spiritual journey.
To awake high-level sensory awareness we use a series of technices spanning from sensorial triggers for relaxation and mindfulness to hypnotic and trance inducing suggestions utilizing touch, emotional intent, sounds, and fragrances.
Techniques are born out of a hands-on transdisciplinary approach and explorations into a vast array of methodologies. The work draws on a lineage of cultural and artistic work that has explored the sensorial and mystical. From the ancient shamanic and ritualized practices to modern developments that can only be realized through new technologies.
Mystical Touch is a 20-minute, 3-stage journey, accommodating 1 participant at a time. It involves 5 mins sensory preparation, 10 mins multiplayer VR experience, and 5 mins integration & reflection.
Powered by cutting edge immersive tools Mystical Touch uses room-scale VR to allow the viewer to co-habit and enable 6DOF interaction. Wireless radiofrequency headphones receive softly spoken words from a wireless microphone. A vibration vest is triggered based on input from the virtual environment and the
Past shows
September 21-23, 2019
21 sessions within 2 days at Nordic Panorama Festival with our 20-minute immersive 1-on-1 local multiplayer virtual reality performance.