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Rachel took the opportunity of a recent recce in Liverpool to check out Kurt Hentschläger’s installation Zee. This is what she had to say about it.

The Austrian artist Kurt Hentschläger is known for creating installations which challenge perceptions through the use of innovative audiovisual techniques. Zee, which has been described as ‘mind-altering’, is no exception, and makes for a unique and powerful sensory experience.

The installation takes place within a room filled with dense fog; before entering a disclaimer must be signed such is the intensity of what is to come. Visitors must guide themselves through the space using a rope; the room becomes increasingly obscure, to the point that you can only see a few inches ahead of you. Strobe lights are then played into the space through the fog.

The effect of this is a psychedelic and hypnotic experience in which the line between dreams and reality becomes blurred due to the intensity of the light show combined with a feeling of total disembodiment. The kaleidoscopic images fill your entire vision, whilst everything around you, including your self disappears into the fog.

The experience has some similarities with Anthony Gormely’s ‘A Walk in a Cloud of Mist’ which was shown at the Hayward Gallery a couple of years ago.

There is a video here of people expressing what if feels like to experience Zee.

Zee will be showing at FACT, Liverpool until the 27th November.

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