Extended Reality Performance

LIVE @Aargauer Kunsthaus
29.11.2025 – 18.1.2026, in Switzerland

CURRENTS
CURRENTS is an immersive extended reality experience where environmental data becomes a sensory performance. Real-time CO₂ emissions and air flows are transformed into interactive virtual ecosystems through VR headsets. This living digital world reacts to your movement — bioluminescent plankton light up as you engage with the invisible forces around you.

Blending poetic imagery with harsh ecological realities, CURRENTS invites you to explore the tension between beauty and pollution — between impact and awareness, serving as a metaphor for the delicate balance of our ecosystems.
A dreamlike space reveals our shared air, made visible through motion capture and environmental sensors streamed into a game engine in real time.

Art, science, and technology converge in a platform for live performance, experimentation, and dialogue. What seems playful at first glance becomes a quiet call to action.

« HOW DO WE CARE FOR WHAT WE CANNOT SEE »

ABOUT CURRENTS is a transmedia XR artwork by Géraldine Honauer. The first prototype premiered at MESH Festival 2024 in Basel. It is co-produced with Florian Weinrich and Daniel Boubet, and its first version developed within the Spatial Affairs XR residency program that brings together a network of collaborators.

PARTNERS
Technology Partners: iart (Basel), TEKNIKER (Spain) and metaLAB (at) Basel
Cultural Partners: Tabakalera (San Sebastián), HEK (House of Electronic Arts), MAP (Museum of Art & Photography, Bangalore).

FUNDINGS
Swiss Arts Council Pro Helvetia (as part of the Spatial Affairs program), Aargauer Kuratorium.

CREDITS
Géraldine Honauer – Concept, Production
Florian Weinrich – Development & App
Daniel Boubet – 3D Design (Version I,2024)
Ivan Hörler – 3D Print
Spezial thank’s to Joerg Hurschle, Robbie Mueller

UPCOMING EVENTS
Aargauer Kunsthaus – Auswahl 2025
🇨🇭 Aarau: November 29, 2025 – January 18, 2026
Nominated for the Förder/Werkbeitrag by Aargauer Kuratorium
PAST EVENT
MAP – New Media Festival
🇮🇳 Bangalore: June 21–22, 2025
Festival de la Imagen – Re:Generative
🇨🇴 Bogotá: May 2–4, 2025
🇨🇴 Manizales: May 5–9, 2025
Tabakalera – IMMATERIAL Festival
🇪🇸 Donostia/San Sebastián: June 4–7, 2025
MESH Festival for Art & Technology
🇨🇭 Basel: Oct 16–20, 2024

CURRENTS continues to grow as a modular, site-responsive project, and is currently open to new collaborations, presentations, and institutional partnerships.

Let’s turn air into visible action!
contact(at)currents.systems