Light as a tool

What do flickering lights and shamanic practices have in common? They can affect the brain activity to the point where a state of trance is reached. Shamans experience this effect by the use of specific tools on their way into the "otherworld", in which they connect themselves to plant devas.

Can we also reach this state of mind by exposure to specific frequencies? How long do we have to be influenced? Which devas will appear and what would they say to us?

Non-Place focuses on a connection between human beings and plants. Vegetative life forms are increasingly struggling for attention due to their low status in our hierarchy of the species and should be approached on different levels. So far, little effort is made to understand their language, not least because of their fundamentally different structure compared to us vertebrates.

An exchange requires openness and new ideas, since our animal chauvinism refuses to leave the terrain of animal language, which is unfit for reference to a plant truth (Francis Hallé, Éloge de la plante, S. 325). Therefore we also address topics that fall out of the scientific grid and seek to investigate the nature of the plant without a claim for justification.

One of our components to prepare for an encounter is the dreamachine. It is based on Brion Gysins design and consists of a perforated cylinder that rotates to emit flickering light of variable frequencies, depending on rotating speed and the size and shape of the holes. Gysins original construction plan can be found online.

It is recommended to view the machine from a very short distance and with closed eyes.