Liminal Lands

Liminal Lands is a VR experience about changes in the soil, weather and energies of the Camargue wetlands over the course of a year. You move through a 3D environment where rocks, trees and other surfaces open and respond to your movement, shaping the work’s sounds. The experience begins at human scale in the salt marshes of Salin de Giraud in southern France, then shifts across plant, animal and bacterial scales.

Explore the wetlands

As you explore, you can move inside and outside of elements and encounter forms of the landscape that are otherwise unexplored. The changing perspectives invite reflection on the relationship between people and landscapes, the differences between human and geological time, and the wetlands’ biodiversity. The experience uses 3D reconstruction as a sensory way to engage with the environment.

Sound and fieldwork

The generative sound design responds to your movement, combining an artistic soundscape with natural recordings from the local environment. Every sound, form and texture was digitized from material gathered by artist Jakob Kudsk Steensen during a year of fieldwork in the Camargue in 2021.

Part of a trilogy

Liminal Lands is one of Jakob Kudsk Steensen’s trilogy of immersive works about wetlands and remembering their natural histories. It focuses on often-overlooked environments and the macro- and microscopic worlds within them.