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Shy Synchrony at Design Miami/ Basel 2021. Photo: Ossip van Duivenbode

Therme Mind Collaborates on Activations for Shy Synchrony, Presented by Superblue and Design Miami/ 

A series of panel discussions within the framework of Therme Art’s Wellbeing Culture Forum, meditation workshops, and special live performances will accompany the installation

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Basel, 20 September, 2021 — Taking over the 2500 sqm Event Hall 1.0 at Design Miami/ Basel, Superblue has partnered with Therme Mind to present a multi-sensory experience featuring the Dutch artist duo DRIFT and a site-specific pavilion by Japanese architect Sou Fujimoto. Throughout the week, special programming will activate the installations, including a series of panel discussions, meditations and workshops presented within the framework of Therme Art’s Wellbeing Culture Forum. 

Created by DRIFT for Design Miami/ Basel 2021, Shy Synchrony is a poetic, upside-down landscape of moving Shylights perpetually blooming in mid-air, inviting visitors to contemplate natural rhythms and their soothing effect on our state of being. The site-specific installation fills Design Miami’s massive entrance hall, providing visitors a moment of synchrony with their immediate surroundings. In a time that is defined by human isolation and a disconnect from nature, DRIFT’s practice aims to address the need for a new alignment with our environment and a return to the strength of communal interaction. Shy Synchrony explores our innate response, individually and collectively, to natural movements, creating a deepened sense of awareness for the singular qualities of all environments we traverse. 

“Natural movements remind the body of how to adapt and align with our environment,” expressed Lonneke Gordijn, DRIFT artist. “In this time of disconnect and climate crisis, we are in desperate need of aligning with each other to create a vision that will secure the future of our planet.” 

Superblue presents their commission to Japanese architect Sou Fujimoto’s Forest of Space in dialogue with DRIFT’s Shy Synchrony at Design Miami / Basel 2021. This first collaboration is part of a larger Superblue project which aims to connect artists and architects, allowing them to develop unique concepts and experiences that push the boundary of conventional art spaces.

Sou Fujimoto’s intended forest-like space invites visitors to interact between the space and the body, allowing them to engage in conversations about the past, present, or future of architecture, and about urban settlements and the natural environment, experimenting with spatial or social qualities in the life-size pavilion.

Shy Synchrony is presented by Superblue in collaboration with Therme Mind, the new joint venture between wellbeing leader Therme Group and Neuroscience pioneer MindMaze. MindMaze's groundbreaking brain restoration and learning technology is adapted by MYND for application in architecture, design and art projects, to create digital, multi-sensorial solutions for mental and physical wellbeing. MYND uses neurotechnology to interact with users’ mind-body functions and design responsive experiences based on biofeedback. In Shy Synchrony, an initial render of MYND technology will be displayed, foreshadowing its future developments, by correlating the movement of DRIFT’s Shylights with visitors’ neural and heart rate activity, leading them into deeper states of consciousness. 

“Through our joint venture with Therme Mind, MindMaze is now expanding into the larger interactive art and cultural sectors, reaching wider audiences, and underlining the significance of new interactive platforms for mental health and wellbeing in contemporary society,” commented CEO of MindMaze, Tej Tadi. “This joint venture is creating a radical shift in the way we perceive and consume both technology and art.”

MYND has developed a unique headset with sensors that capture information from the brain, the face and the heart, bringing one’s internal state to life via DRIFT's Shylights. These embedded sensors capture brain relaxation patterns, facial muscular activities and heart rate variations, leveraging sophisticated AI algorithms to guide the artwork's expressions and movement patterns in real time. As a participant engages in a guided meditation experience donning the headset, their internal bodily state manifests visually via a unique choreography of the artwork. Viewing and understanding their impact on Shylights' choreography triggers their visual-cortical neuro-biofeedback loop, and as co-participants engage in the experience, their inner states are impacted too. 

“By integrating Therme Mind’s neurotechnology, Shy Synchrony creates an experience where audiences can become a part of the artwork, observe their mental activity and explore the conditions that support their own mind-body wellbeing,” said CEO and Co-Founder of Therme Art, Mikolaj Sekutowicz. “We are pleased to present this work at Design Miami/ Basel this year, as part of Therme Mind’s newest art commissions programme.” 

Offering a place of calm and congregation at the heart of the fair, a series of activations across the fields of science, meditation, and architecture will be offered in the space throughout the week. 

As part of the Wellbeing Culture Forum, Therme Art will present the talk Art and Architecture as Healing: Shaping a Mental Health Economy on Wednesday, 22 September, from 11:00 – 12:30. The discussion will centre on architecture’s potential as a medium to improve mental health, going beyond architectural preconditions previously founded on the notion of productivity. Guest panellists will include Lonneke Gordijn, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Precious Okoyomon, Mollie Dent-Brocklehurst, Torkwase Dyson, Sumayya Vally, Tej Tadi, Simon de Pury, Franziska Kessler, Mikolaj Sekutowicz, Olaf Blanke, among others. Art, architecture, and cultural production will be introduced as resources that hold the power to create physical spaces in which mental health becomes a priority.

To learn more, visit www.therme.art.

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ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Therme Mind
Therme Mind is a joint venture between wellbeing leader Therme Group and neuroscience pioneer MindMaze. Therme Mind integrates MindMaze’s groundbreaking neuroscience technology into Therme’s holistic approach to wellbeing, to methodically redefine the role of preventive health in our culture and society. Under its initiative MYND, Therme Mind adapts MindMaze’s medical-grade neurotechnology for application in architecture, design, and arts projects, to create digital, multi-sensorial solutions that promote mental and physical wellbeing. Through biofeedback-based experiences that interact with users’ mind-body functions, MYND invites selected artists to create interactive artworks, addressing questions of mental health and wellbeing.

Further information: www.thermemind.one

DRIFT
DRIFT Dutch artists Lonneke Gordijn (1980) and Ralph Nauta (1978) founded DRIFT in 2007.  Through their work they manifest the phenomena and hidden properties of nature with the use of technology in order to learn from the Earth’s underlying mechanisms and to re-establish our connection to it. Since its inception, DRIFT has worked on experiential sculptures, installations and performances that examine our relationship and the influence of technology on the natural world. Their work has been exhibited at Victoria & Albert Museum (2009, 2015); Met Museum (2010); Stedelijk Museum (2018); UTA Artist Space (2019); Garage Museum (2019); Mint Museum (2019); Biennale di Venezia (2015); Pace Gallery (2017) amongst others. Their work is held in the permanent collections of the LACMA; Rijksmuseum; SFMOMA; Stedelijk Museum; and Victoria & Albert Museum. In 2014, Drift was awarded the Arte Laguna Prize, Venice.
 
Further information: www.studiodrift.com

Sou Fujimoto

Inspired by organic structures such as the nest, the cave and the forest, Fujimoto’s signature buildings often discuss the relationship between architecture and the built environment. He views the relationship between architecture and nature as complementary and sees that integrating the two can create a higher quality of design. Such coherence, together with a well-conceived idea, contributes to the spatial quality of a designed space. His work demonstrates how architectural design does not necessarily need to intervene, but can respect and work with what already exists, as seen in an exploration below of his most well-known works which point toward the potential architecture of the future.

 
Born in Hokkaido in 1971, Fujimoto graduated from the University of Tokyo’s Department of Architecture in 1994. He went on to establish 
Sou Fujimoto Architects in 2000. Since then, Fujimoto has worked on a broad list of commissions, ranging from domestic to institutional works. In 2012, he participated in the exhibition for the Japan Pavilion in the International Architecture Exhibition, ’La Biennale di Venezia’, which was awarded ‘The Golden Lion for Best National Participation’. Sou Fujimoto received multiple awards for his work including; ‘Mille Arbres’, 2016, the ‘New Learning Center’ at Paris-Saclay’s Ecole Polytechnique and the ‘Liget Budapest House of Hungarian Music’ in 2014. He was awarded first prize for ‘Taiwan Tower’ and ‘Beton Hala Waterfront Center’ in 2011, and the AR Awards Grand Prize for the ‘Children’s Center for Psychiatric Rehabilitation’ in 2006.

 
His most important works include the Serpentine Gallery Pavilion, 2013, House NA, 2011, Musashino Art University Museum & Library 2010, Final Wooden House, 2008 and House N, 2008. 

Further information:
www.sou-fujimoto.net


MindMaze
MindMaze is a global leader in brain technology with a mission to accelerate humanity's ability to recover, learn and adapt. With over a decade of work at the intersection of neuroscience, medicine, and engineering powered by artificial intelligence; the company strives to create the universal platform of brain health and performance. Through its products the company is addressing some of the most challenging problems in neurology, including stroke, Alzheimer's disease and Parkinson's disease. MindMaze Labs is the company's R&D division tasked with bringing ground-breaking neuroscience to everyday life. Founded in 2012 by Tej Tadi, Ph.D., 

MindMaze's Chief Executive Officer, the Company has offices in Lausanne, Baltimore, London, Paris and Mumbai. 

Further information: www.mindmaze.com
 
Superblue
Superblue is a ground-breaking new enterprise dedicated to supporting artists in realising their most ambitious visions and engaging audiences with experiential art. Its network of artists encompasses the leading practitioners of experiential art, whose practices catalyse engagement with the most pressing issues of our time and generate new perspectives on our world.  

Through its experiential art centres, specifically designed for presenting large-scale, immersive art installations, Superblue provides artists with expanded opportunities to transport audiences to the new worlds they create. Superblue additionally acts as an advocate and agent for experiential artists by fostering opportunities for them to expand their reach of their work through collaborations with museums, collectors, visual, and performing arts. Superblue provides these partners with unparalleled expertise and support for the production, installation, and presentation of large-scale experiential works, through collaborative presentations, public and private commissions, and acquisitions.  
 
More information: www.superblue.com  

Therme Art
Therme Art works with internationally renowned artists and architects, as well as emerging talents, to commission and develop site-specific artistic projects that challenge the limitations of conventional exhibition spaces and redefine contemporary art viewing. Therme Art provides the resources and means required to fulfill artists’ visions which cannot be realized in galleries or museums, regardless of their complexity, production, installation, and long-term maintenance. Therme Art’s artists challenge the limitations of conventional art spaces, whether it be playing with the architectural elements of an environment, developing entire ecosystems, or creating immersive installations that transform visitors’ experiences.

Therme Art’s most recent collaborations include its acquisition of the 2021 Serpentine Pavilion, designed by Sumayya Vally and Counterspace, marking its third consecutive year in partnership with Serpentine to support its annual architecture programme, its development of three major projects at the 17th International Architecture Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia, The Garden of Privatised Delights, co-curated by Madeleine Kessler and Manijeh Verghese; Mutual Aid by Pnat and plant scientist Stefano Mancuso; and Resurrecting the Sublime, an immersive installation merging art and biotechnology by Sissel Tolaas. Jeppe Hein’s artistic project Today I Feel Like... Manchester 2021, was a recent part of Therme Art’s collaboration with Manchester International Festival.

Further information: www.therme.art
 
Therme Group
Therme Group is a leading global wellbeing provider designing, constructing, and operating the world’s largest wellbeing facilities. Its contemporary urban development proposition incorporates environmental concepts to re-integrate nature into everyday life. Therme Group’s facilities combine its innovative sustainable technologies with human-oriented design. Drawing upon the tradition of ancient thermal baths, which were designed to be healing, social, and egalitarian settings, Therme Group builds environments that nurture the mind and body for visitors of all ages and demographics, creating healthy and resilient communities.

Further information: www.thermegroup.com

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