Shown in augmented reality in the Aliens section of Competing Cosmologies: Interpreting the Sky, opening at the Wende Museum on 7 November 2026.
A column of weightless figures turning and rising through a cone of light, held at twenty-six feet. The work exists in augmented reality alone—there is no object in the gallery. A visitor raises a phone and the column occupies the room around them, at full height, from wherever they are standing.
A more symbolic approach to the subject matter, motivated by his own experience of medical treatment for a disease that took hold of his body and made it a site of intervention. Competing Cosmologies exhibition catalogue
The scene draws on religious ascension narratives and on the iconography of extraterrestrial contact that runs through the exhibition's Aliens section.
Auteur Studio built the exhibition's augmented-reality catalogue. Scanning a code opens a 360° star hemisphere on a phone; objects from the show orbit overhead in a choreographed sequence, to an original score. Abduction appears within it.
Alongside the spatial layer sits a voice docent trained on the full curatorial record—catalogue essays, artist biographies, curatorial notes—so a visitor can ask about an object, an artist or the Cold War context. The exhibition closes; the conversation does not.
