ATMOS_FERA constructs a sequence of unstable environments — immersive fields of light, fog, and spatial sound, each evoking the physical and sensory qualities of planetary atmospheres. Informed by scientific data and speculative extrapolation, these atmospheres are not representations but composed conditions. The work imagines how life — not as a biological fact, but as a perceptual and affective presence — might manifest within uninhabitable environments.
The work draws on NASA's Planetary Spectrum Generator (PSG), translating real radiative transfer data — atmospheric composition, light scattering, solar geometry — through CIE color matching functions into light in physical space. Every color in the installation is derived from physically computed atmospheric physics. The narrative arc of the piece shapes visual behaviors, fog density, and spatial sound relationships — each planetary act defining its own perceptual and affective regime.
The performance unfolds in a durational structure that allows the audience to stand, move, or linger. There is no fixed point of view. The work invites spatial negotiation — a slow calibration of the body within a system that shifts around it.