Zhuangzi's Butterfly Inception

2023 Immersive and Interactive

Healing Art&Sound Project

庄周梦

Zhuangzi’s Butterfly Inception is an immersive and interactive healing artwork with artist’s live performance
Inspired by the famous Taoist story Zhuangzi and His Butterfly Dream and the Heart Sutra, Xinye folds together concepts of sci-fiction, algorithmic visualizations, and the cosmological interpretation of her personal meditation practices. The work discusses the connection between the worlds of the real and the virtual, wherein the viewer is invited to lay on the ground and sink into sound and visual meditation built by intersecting the harmonics of mathematics, musical frequency, and the artist's live music performance.