30/04/2026
// 10 2025 Effugium, Immersive Art Installation
The interactive reality of EFFUGIUM.
How do you translate the emotional weight of fleeing one's homeland into a sensory experience? With our installation, Effugium, which was initially setup for the Bright Festival Leipzig and was Lateran on display at the Kunstkraftwerk Leipzig for 4 months, we’ve created a responsive environment where the visitor’s presence is the catalyst for the art itself. This is not a static exhibition—it is a live, ever-changing dialogue between human movement and media technology.
The journey leads through three interactive spaces, each reacting dynamically to your every step:
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The Escape: Around forty strobe lights and speakers act as a field of sensors. They "watch" for human presence: move too close, and the light and sound intensify aggressively, forcing you to find the one "safe path" where the system remains silent.
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Incomplete Presence: Using real-time skeleton tracking from motion-detecting cameras, the installation fragments your reflection into layered R-G-B shadows. Your identity on the wall is never fixed; it splits and overlaps, reacting to your position in the room.
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Unfamiliar Ground: As you walk across the concrete floor, sensors trigger subtle shifts in light and meaning. A flickering word like heimat might appear, only to dim and dissolve into noise the moment you try to approach it.
Effugium explores the uncertainty of displacement by making the experience personal and unpredictable. By turning participation into a metaphor for flight, we invite you to experience a space where nothing is guaranteed and every movement matters.
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