Liminal Lands
Erratic Animist · 2023 · Nature, VR, Atmospheric, Mythology, Exploration
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About Liminal Lands
You are about to enter Liminal Lands - an experience documenting changes to the soil, weather and energies of the Camargue wetlands over the course of a year.
Move through rocks, trees and surfaces, which will open up and react to you. Your movement influences the sounds of the work.
Explore, relax and let yourself be immersed.
Key Features
VR: Liminal Lands is VR-only. Players physically move through the environment as shapes, textures and sounds respond. You can explore inside and outside of elements.
Perspective: The viewer begins at human scale, on the salt marshes of Salin de Giraud in Southern France. As players explore the 3D environment, perspectives slowly shift and mutate across plant, animal, and bacterial scales. The artwork meditates on the psychological connection to landscapes.
Sound Design: The generative sound design responds to players' movements, and combines an artistic soundscape with natural recorded material from the local environment.
Fieldwork: Every sound, form and texture in Liminal Lands has been digitized from material gathered by artist Jakob Kudsk Steensen during a year of fieldwork in the Camargue region of southern France in 2021.
Ritualistic Experience: Players can explore morphing elements of the world that are otherwise unexplored, and meditate on the differences in scale between human and geological time as well as the landscape’s biodiversity. The 3D reconstructive technology becomes a sensory tool for a ritualistic environmental experience.
Liminal Lands is one of artist Jakob Kudsk Steensen’s trilogy of immersive works on wetlands and remembering their natural histories. Liminal Lands brings a new, slow sensibility to these otherwise overlooked environments, encouraging players to re-examine their relationship to the ecosystems beneath their feet, and explore the otherwise unseen macro- and microscopic environments of the wetlands.
Liminal Lands was originally commissioned in by the Luma Foundation for the 'Prelude' Exhibition at Luma Arles in 2021. It has been additionally shown at Geneva International Film Festival (2021), the British Film Institute Festival (2021), South by South West (2022), STRP Festival (2023), Doc Aviv (2023), VRHAM (2022), Sonar Festival (2022), Reference Festival x Selfridges (2022) and Strasbourg Festival (2022). The exhibition has shown at Outernet Arts (2023), FMAV Modena (2023), Today Art Museum (2023), SODA Gallery (2022), Nahmad Contemporary (2022), Kornhausforum Bern (2022), and Cube Art Museum (2022).
Move through rocks, trees and surfaces, which will open up and react to you. Your movement influences the sounds of the work.
Explore, relax and let yourself be immersed.
Key Features
VR: Liminal Lands is VR-only. Players physically move through the environment as shapes, textures and sounds respond. You can explore inside and outside of elements.
Perspective: The viewer begins at human scale, on the salt marshes of Salin de Giraud in Southern France. As players explore the 3D environment, perspectives slowly shift and mutate across plant, animal, and bacterial scales. The artwork meditates on the psychological connection to landscapes.
Sound Design: The generative sound design responds to players' movements, and combines an artistic soundscape with natural recorded material from the local environment.
Fieldwork: Every sound, form and texture in Liminal Lands has been digitized from material gathered by artist Jakob Kudsk Steensen during a year of fieldwork in the Camargue region of southern France in 2021.
Ritualistic Experience: Players can explore morphing elements of the world that are otherwise unexplored, and meditate on the differences in scale between human and geological time as well as the landscape’s biodiversity. The 3D reconstructive technology becomes a sensory tool for a ritualistic environmental experience.
Liminal Lands is one of artist Jakob Kudsk Steensen’s trilogy of immersive works on wetlands and remembering their natural histories. Liminal Lands brings a new, slow sensibility to these otherwise overlooked environments, encouraging players to re-examine their relationship to the ecosystems beneath their feet, and explore the otherwise unseen macro- and microscopic environments of the wetlands.
Liminal Lands was originally commissioned in by the Luma Foundation for the 'Prelude' Exhibition at Luma Arles in 2021. It has been additionally shown at Geneva International Film Festival (2021), the British Film Institute Festival (2021), South by South West (2022), STRP Festival (2023), Doc Aviv (2023), VRHAM (2022), Sonar Festival (2022), Reference Festival x Selfridges (2022) and Strasbourg Festival (2022). The exhibition has shown at Outernet Arts (2023), FMAV Modena (2023), Today Art Museum (2023), SODA Gallery (2022), Nahmad Contemporary (2022), Kornhausforum Bern (2022), and Cube Art Museum (2022).
What Steam players say
Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.
Nice try. Worth to get for a few euros. Has some nice views, bit slow but the sound makes up for it. Creepy and weird and a bit trippy. It's between zen and spooky.2 found this helpful
My review might be slightly biased since I'm already a fan of Jakob Kudsk Steensen's work, which I find mesmerizing in real life. Experiencing his creation through a VR headset, without having seen it in person, is a remarkable experience. This isn't a traditional game; it's more of an audio-visual journey that immerses you in his interpretation of wetlands from your own perspective. Every detail in this experience provokes thought and offers a unique viewpoint. It's a relaxing journey that encourages introspection. The shifting viewpoints continually present new angles, enhancing the experience each time – I absolutely loved it. The investment is minimal, but the return is significant – spending 20 minutes in this virtual world is undoubtedly worth it.1 found this helpful
Nice experience. You do need a bit of space to be able to interact with things properly. I only have about 3 x 3 so I wasn't able to interact as much I I'd like. It would benefit from being able to teleport to overcome space issues.
Not for me I guess. A little too abstract. The scans are interesting and there's a real LSD trip feel to it, but I just didn't feel it. For someone into a more cosmic/artistic experience, it might be fine. I don't understand why they have all 103 supported Steam languages set as being supported. I don't think there's actually any spoken or written content. Maybe they meant to be tongue-in-cheek "accessible." I don't like them claiming languages that they haven't actually invested any time into (Apache??).
this is not a game, this is a predefined cinematic that you have no control over. you can stick your head into objects to hear different noises, but nothing more. not a prerendered cinematic, so there will be performance issues and frame drops. texture resolutions are low, so this should run well on an old quest or something. also, each scene is pretty boring and lasts too long, and you have no control over how long you spend in each scene. and then at the end, i had to force kill the process with the operating system since it didn't exit properly. however, i'd say it's worth the $1 sale price since it is in fact something to look at for awhile, but i wouldn't recommend buying it.
Well I don't know that I walked away having learned any more about the wetlands, but I know I definitely want to do drugs there.
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