ABOUT
reSOUND New York, a site-specific multi-sensory art exhibition, stimulates all the senses and draws audiences into new dimensions of synesthetic experience. Following its successful debut in 2024 at Culture Station Seoul 284, a historic train station reimagined as a cultural venue, reSOUND now arrives in New York, inviting audiences into a transformative moment through artworks that engage multiple senses.
Laid out across seven stages designed to take audiences on a sensory journey that encourages personal exploration, reSOUND New York allows visitors to freely navigate the experience at their own pace. Installations featuring large-scale immersive, interactive, light-based, tactile, and audience-driven artworks, as well as kinetic sound and art furniture, will open new dimensions of sensory perception, resonating with audiences both individually and collectively.
The firststage, ARRIVAL, begins with Ocean, a large-scale panoramic video installation depicting an overwhelming dark wave, enveloping visitors in a vast visual and auditory environment. Created in collaboration with composerJang Young-gyu, this immersive work sets the tone for the journey ahead, surrounding visitors with an atmosphere of sensory exploration.
TRANSITO then reveals a luminous passage extending forward into space. This installation by Children of the Light transforms radiant columns of light into an architectural corridor that continuously shifts and reshapes, evoking a sensation of weightlessness. Accompanied by soundtrack composed for a glass harmonica, this passage dissolves into liquid architecture, carrying audiences into an endless visual and spatial moment that conveys a sense of transition beyond physical boundaries.
In the next stage, BOUNDLESS expands into moments that are at once intimate and collective. Tactile Orchestra by Fillip Studios invites visitors to use the walls as instruments, collaborating with others to create harmonies and rhythms that unfold into an emerging symphony, while cultivating a deeply sensory connection with sound. Boundless Body by Eric Gunther, creative director of SOSO, presents an interactive installation centered on a twelve-foot wooden bench, where poetry is experienced through shared vibrations resonating across bodies seated together. Breathing Room by Liam Lee transforms a mirrored infinity space into an undulating landscape of moss-inspired soft forms, offering a tactile and contemplative engagement that reconsiders the relationship between the body and its surroundings.
In ECHO, audiences are transported into an omni-dimensional kinetic sound environment, created through the sonification of black hole data and presented on an eight-channel sound system. This work employs sound and light to represent the relativistic movement of energy near black holes, conveying the extraordinary sensation of warped space-time. First launched in 2024 as part of the d’strict Art Project, Echo is a collaborative initiative that brings together multidisciplinary expertise to create transformative immersive experiences. The project, under d’strict’s creative direction, features notable contributions from Erin Kara, a renowned MIT astrophysicist, Ian Condry, founder of the MIT Spatial Sound Lab, Kyle Keane, who authored the sonification, oOps.50656 a media collective responsible for the creation of the spatial soundscape, and KKOL Studio, who designed the spatial elements of the installation.
In WHISPER, audiences encounter works that combine delicate design with sensory engagement. Petal Collection by Hannah Bigeleisen uses rich materials express inner emotions and explores how repetition can evoke softness in a material as solid as cement, while Fortune Chair by JUMBO entices playful interaction with chair installations designed in the form of smiles. This stage turns participants into co-creators, blending their voices and whispers into a multi-sensory environment that engages sight, hearing, smell, taste, and touch.
The journey moves on to FLOW, where art history is reinterpreted through symbolic dance movements in an art performance film of the same name. Featuring a 5.1-channel score composed by Tristan Barton and realized as a site-specific sculptural LED installation, Flow uses rhythm and sound to immerse audiences in the evolving relationship between the world and the self. Conceived as a stage for collective enjoyment, the installation brings visitors together around a large-scale ceiling screen and a front-facing display that amplify the spatial dynamics of rhythm and movement.
The final stage, INTO INFINITY, culminates with the endless movement from the interactive lighting sculpture Spiraling into Infinity II, a collaboration between Children of the Light and Alexander Whitley Dance Company. Here, an exquisitely crafted sequence of light interactions of various speeds, shapes, colors, and intensities offer the audience an otherworldly immersion into the infinite that stretches beyond time and space.
Established in 2004, d'strict is a leading digital design and art company based in South Korea. Over the past two decades, d'strict has pioneered captivating digital experiences within physical spaces by merging visual creativity with media technology, building upon longstanding digital craftsmanship and cutting-edge innovation. By continually introducing user-centric, visually captivating content, d'strict has expanded the possibilities of digital media. In an effort to further its cultural and artistic impact, d'strict introduced the d'strict Art Project in 2024. This new platform seeks to broaden d'strict‘s cultural and artistic reach, engaging with a wider audience and forging deeper connections with the art community. In close collaboration with diverse creators both within and outside the company, the d'strict Art Project aims to push the boundaries of cultural and artistic expression and to engage with a wider audience in new ways of interpreting, remembering, and reimagining through immersive, holistic art experiences.