Four Winds Installation, Installation
Project Details
Four Winds is a multi-part installation that constructs a speculative wellness landscape through video, sculpture, and fictional pharmaceutical design. The work blends found footage, science fiction, and immersive aesthetics to question how optimization culture, biotechnology, and spirituality converge in systems of control.
A single-channel fictional documentary outlines the creation of the Four Winds Wellness Association and the origin story of its founders, Dr. Miles Bennell and Dr. Patricia Lunbed. Alongside this, the two-channel video Link 8 follows a group of participants selected by algorithm—based on DNA, psychological traits, and personal trauma—who enter an immersive protocol intended to "enhance" human potential. Their journey through this curated environment reveals the tension between self-transcendence and algorithmic obedience.
Embedded throughout the space are video sculptures modeled after health AI robots, extracted from the Link 8 environment and materialized as ambiguous therapeutic agents. A wall of prismatic collages acts as a portal between physical and projected realities.
Also present is a fictional pharmaceutical display: Personality Sharing Colour Meditation Aids, a series of pill boxes containing USB sticks with silent, looping five-minute color videos intended to induce specific mental or emotional states. These videos are not visible in the gallery. Instead, visitors encounter only the labeled pill packaging, each marked with a name and hand-written prescription—such as Leviathan Blue (psychic, conductor, mirror), Third Eye Chai (robust, spicy, truth), or Overwhelming Bone (strength, primordial, uncovering). The installation invites viewers to imagine the unseen: therapy as projection, healing as branding.
A single-channel fictional documentary outlines the creation of the Four Winds Wellness Association and the origin story of its founders, Dr. Miles Bennell and Dr. Patricia Lunbed. Alongside this, the two-channel video Link 8 follows a group of participants selected by algorithm—based on DNA, psychological traits, and personal trauma—who enter an immersive protocol intended to "enhance" human potential. Their journey through this curated environment reveals the tension between self-transcendence and algorithmic obedience.
Embedded throughout the space are video sculptures modeled after health AI robots, extracted from the Link 8 environment and materialized as ambiguous therapeutic agents. A wall of prismatic collages acts as a portal between physical and projected realities.
Also present is a fictional pharmaceutical display: Personality Sharing Colour Meditation Aids, a series of pill boxes containing USB sticks with silent, looping five-minute color videos intended to induce specific mental or emotional states. These videos are not visible in the gallery. Instead, visitors encounter only the labeled pill packaging, each marked with a name and hand-written prescription—such as Leviathan Blue (psychic, conductor, mirror), Third Eye Chai (robust, spicy, truth), or Overwhelming Bone (strength, primordial, uncovering). The installation invites viewers to imagine the unseen: therapy as projection, healing as branding.
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Four Winds, 2017, exhibition view -
Level I, 4 channel video, stainless steel, electronics, mixed media, 2017, -
Four Winds Wellness Association, 2017, 4min30 video loop on customized clay monitor -
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acrylic on clay, 4 channel synced video, electronics, mixed media, 2017 -
acrylic on clay, 4 channel synced video, electronics, mixed media, 2017