Cosmic Garden explores spaces of perception through embodiment, movement, sound, and immersive digital environments. At its centre is a stylised, one-eyed character whose body becomes guide and sensing instrument. Dressed in deep blue and yellow, the figure moves through an organic landscape of rippling surfaces, shifting perspectives, and pools of light. Its gestures alternate between curiosity, hesitation, surrender, and expansion, inviting viewers to experience the world emotionally rather than decode it narratively.
The work creates a perceptual reality in which body, voice, music, and environment reshape one another. Contrasts of colour and illumination heighten the character’s vulnerability, while camera movement and spatial distortion transform the garden into a psychological space. Sound and vocals function as choreographic forces, connecting inner sensation with movement.
Cosmic Garden marks the starting point for the development of a dance performance and a music-based stylised character situated within an artistic universe. It asks how a virtual body can transmit presence and emotional resonance, inviting audiences to enter an unfamiliar world and feel from within it.
Created in 2026 at FH Salzburg by a five-person team:
Justus Steinfeldt — project lead and 3D execution, vocals, lyrics
Saskia Kleemann and Philipp Schinwald — music production
Brett Rosen — digital clothing
Rasita Kosonsasitorn — data preparation
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