Immersive and meditative installation (2022)

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Sound by Daniel Kapelian

TIME DROP is a new immersive and meditative installation created by the studio OMA Space in Seoul.

This experience is the legacy of previous monumental installations, such as TREE OF LIGHT presented in 2019 in Paris by Google Art & Culture – Mobilier National – FIAC! As well as SLOW WALK, presented in 2020 in Seoul by Piknic – Glint – Stella Mc Cartney – Japan Foundation.

The intention behind the studio’s guiding lines, towards TIME DROP, remains in the same continuity : 

To design and create real organic physical and immersive spaces, with seamless technology. And to offer people the experience of a solitary moment, to reconnect with themselves.

TIME DROP is an invitation for us all to transcend our own states of mind. 

Using short meditative sequences, this immersion requires a form of isolation and a sensorial deprivation.

So as to achieve this, the TIME DROP experience uses a movable dome that slowly descends and covers an individual, positioned on a cushion underneath, in darkness during five minutes.

Wearing only headphones, the individual will experience the sound, while being immersed in total darkness, with no perception of the physical space around but the sonic creation of a new mindscape inside.

How many times do you catch yourself closing your eyes, focusing just on the ambient sounds around, in order to reach a state of presence, to connect to the here and now, to allow the space within your mind to be as vast as the cosmos without?

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TIME DROP은 OMA Space의 과거 몰입형 명상 프로젝트와 연관성을 유지하며 기획한 2022년형 몰입형 명상 설치물이다. 실제 유기적인 공간을 창작하여 사람들에게 몰입의 경험을 제공하고, 그들 자신과 연결되도록 한다.

TIME DROP은 짧은 순간이지만, 일종의 고립을 통해 감각 작용 정지시켜 우리의 마음 상태를 초월하도록 한다.

이 경험을 위해 TIME DROP 돔이 천천히 내려와, 앉아 있는 사람을 덮고 5분 동안 어둠 속에서 머무르게 한다. 헤드폰만 착용한 사람은 주변의 물리적 공간에 대한 인식 없이, 청각을 제외한 모든 감각작용이 차단된 상태이며 내부에서 일어나는 마인드스케이프의 음파 생성을 경험할 것이다.

눈을 감고 주위의 소리에만 집중해서 존재의 상태에 도달하기 위해, 마음의 공간을 우주처럼 넓히기 위해 몇 번이나 눈을 감고 있어 보았는가?