Vajda David Bodnar

‘how are we Being’ is an immersive sound-light-movement piece exploring the embodied qualities we share in space, in the present moment — among us.

Inspired by the Kyoto School’s philosophy, the work centers on the dynamic, relational nature of place: a web of co-constituting elements where "pure experience" dissolves the subject-object divide. Here, the qualities of our relations — with humans and non-humans — are more fundamental than the categories we use to separate. This view of reality is inherently tied closely with ethics.

Multichannel audio and interactive electronics map these self-environment relations, tracing dramaturgical arcs of lack, emergence, presence, and decay in continuous flux. The piece unfolds in three acts: the self in becoming, its meeting with the environment, and the sensing of interrelations — the way we are Being together in a shared experience.