Interactive installation / Evolving

Bardo

An interactive reflection on the cycles of water and human life.

Bardo at Lumière YVR
Bardo at Lumière YVR, Vancouver Art Gallery Plaza, 2024.

The experience

From rain to river to ocean.

Drawing from Buddhist concepts, Bardo considers the parallels between Earth’s water cycle and human life cycles. Through an interactive field of projected image, sound and responsive technology, participants’ bodies become rain, river and ocean—gestures toward childhood, adulthood and return.

The work brings emerging media into conversation with embodied practice and ancient wisdom, inviting an intimate encounter with change, continuity and interdependence.

Creative credits

Co-leads

John Desnoyers-Stewart & Ruby Singh

Interactive media, sound and evolving co-creation, with input from Pravin Pillay.

MOVE37XR

Art, technology and embodied experience

Bardo evolved from The rain is the river is the ocean and remains part of an ongoing set of collaborations spanning installation, mixed reality, spatial voice and movement-responsive environments.