“The beauty of the world is the entrance of the labyrinth. The imprudent person who, having entered, takes a few steps, is after some time unable to find his way back.... If he doesn't lose courage, if he continues to walk, it is absolutely certain that he will arrive at the centre of the labyrinth. And there, God is waiting for them, to eat them. Afterward they will stay near the entrance so that they can gently push all those who come near into the opening.” Simone Weil

Liminality is after the past and before the future - in a no mans land, in the deepest cave, through the looking glass. In our research we tried to find common characteristics in different rites of passage. In our artwork the rite of separation starts at the one way labirinth spiraled over the core. On the way towards the centre, you'll leave your well known, limited self behind, you'll get instructions of how to use the space and caution rules. When inside, there are six spaces all the same you could chose to sit in. We fix the sensors and your active part begins: your pulse, temperature and breath takes controll over the space and you are to decide if you want to controll them.

Participators of the installation shall un>consciously control the output light, color and sound.

The space's feedbacks will let you know how your current mental and phisical state relates to individual harmony and how it resonates with the others. The state of liminality usually involves challenges like bearing extreme circumstances or meeting special criteria, and is usually followed by a feast of trance. If all the participants at a certain moment learn to consciously use the space given, mentally control the resonance, newerseen things might be witnessed.

ReOnion installation is an initiation ritual to a special physical and virtual space with its own rules. It is a connecting sphere of inside and outside, me and them, you and I. The spectator at first sight will see an organic sculpture of amorphus lights and reanimated plastic trash, while the participants, who come close and enter the system of interactions, pass through something more: a special state of mind. They become part of a membrane projecting their own inside resonance to the outer world while reacting to each other. Deconstruction of your own mental boundaries melting into a realization of a virtual togetherness. This expanded inner space of random community is the core of our experiment.  We are devoted to human interaction and experi-mental media, reacting and interacting with each other. We hope to help our visitors and spectators to a discovery of inner and outer mental space and an experience of communicative resonance in a way they have never seen before.

The installation is onion-shape (garlic) structure which reacts the visitor’s resonances with light and sound. The structure divided into six cabins and one main room. The base of the installation is a 19.7 ft (6 m) diameter circle. In the center located a 19.7 ft (6 m) high steel pillar, which supports the structure and technical equipment. The cabins are built on a 6.6 ft (2 m) high wooden stage around the pillar. The main room located around the steel pillar, the visitors have to climb here to enter the cabins.

The stage is a wooden frame construction supportted with 15 columns, the colums are fitted to each other in x shape. The frame is covered with plywood plates, around the steel pillar we leave it uncovered. The visitors, and the crew can enter and leave here.

The cabins are supported by carbon ribs, each of the them covered with UTOPLAST plastic overlay. The carbon tubes are fitted to the wooden stage with multiple joints and secured to the steel pillar with ropes. Between the ribs are additional bracing with carbon tubes and ropes.

The UTOPLAST is a semitransparent material, perfect to use as a projection screen. During the screenings the videos are projected onto the cabins inner surface.

Since the cabins are designed to accomodate one person only, the structure can be visited by 6 person at the same time. When someone enters into the cabin, the screening begins on its surface accompanied by a sound.

When no one is inside, the onion reacts to the resonances of the ground with sound the projection is a self generated video.

The projectors are located in three individual stand around the structure.

The main installation is illuminated by the projectors from sunset till dawn. Projector stands and technical shelter illuminated by color spots for security. The six cloves of the installation are lit by three projectors, their pictures mapped on the surfaces. All of them have individual content, ambiance and particular vision. The cloves behave like sounds of an instrument, lights and images create a symbiosis with the sounds, animated by the resonances of the visitors.  This way the audiovisual sculpture functions like a living light organ, musical and visual instrument. 

Sensor-measured inputs are heartbeats, breathing and body temperature. Audio, color and lightness are controlled by them: participants' breathing is amplified and modulated according to the aberration from normal interval. Color sensitively changes on a scale visualizing human temperature measured by our sensors. Heartbeat controls beat per minute of colors fading. All these can be controlled consciously just as well as unconsciously. Visualization is generated by our program, based on non figurative shape motives.

The participants of the installation shall spend time inside depending on the number of people waiting, but maximized to ten-fifteen minutes. In the minutes of no one 'using' one clove a so-called dream-machine shall be projected accompanied by a generated sound equal to Mother Earth's resonance. A dream-machine is a special light phenomena driving the closed eyed viewer to alpha brain state and triggering light visual hallucinations behind the closed eyes.

How it works?

The sensors are build in a pipe the visitor can hold in her/his hand after entering a clove. In the pipe a piezzo film sensor senses heartbeat (pulse), temperature and physical pressure. The sensors are driven by Arduino. Breath is amplified by a little clips on the nose made of two piezzo flakes. 

The installation has active and inactive state. When active, at night, the sounds make a loop on a base frequency according to the six cloves. As the individual areas get activised they modulate by the visitors resonances. The modulations are distortions, amplifiing, lowering, versions of the generated base frequency. The consonant is harmonic, the base sounds create harmony in any combination. In all cabins the cabins modulated voice sounds inside and has another speaker outwards as well. The one inside the cabin hears her or his sound dominantly, but outside the sound differs according to your position around the installation. The installation emits the base, monoton, mantra.like sounds when inactive, during the day light, without projection. 

We are a group of visual artists and designers from Budapest. Architecture, interaction design, VJing, installations and organizing outdoor events is our main fields.  As young onions from Budapest, we are deeply engaged with party subculture and ephemer installations.  As individuals, we are related to Kitchen Budapest media lab, Air Architects, Plastenka Eco Design, Illegálparty, MOME, and other contemporary design communities. Dani Feles studies mediadesign @  MOME (Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design). He creates generated graphic systems. In reOnion he deals with interaction programming and works with sensors. Andrea Sztojanovits graduated at the Hungarian Academy of Fine Arts - Intermedia department. She is a vj at parties. Péter Debreczeni graduated at MOME as an architech, currently works for Atelierarchitects.  Zsolt Ádám organised legendary illegal parties around Budapest. Juli Laczkó graduated at MOME, creates projections, installations and recycled objects.