Invisible Places

Invisible Places Installation

25 to 30 March 2025 | 10am to 5pm

‘Invisible Places’ is an interactive installation by composer Carlos Caires that invites participants to awaken and manipulate an immersive sound system through the movements of their hands, creating an engaging dialogue with projections of light, images and sounds. 

Initiated as part of the symposium ‘Culture and Sustainability: DME 2020 Project’, in this iteration of the work, specially prepared for MONSTRA and the National Museum of Natural History and Science, the installation has gained new features that expand interactivity and the audiovisual experience, in a unique fusion of sound, light and movement that challenges the limits of perception.

Using a combination of sounds created by the composer and others from the museum’s own nature sound bank, the audiovisual experience also includes a lighting system designed by a group of students from BAU, Barcelona’s University Centre for Arts and Design, as part of a partnership with the Catalan festival Punto y Raya.

Organisation:

Taumotrópio – Festival MONSTRA e Moviment d’alliberament digital – Festival Punto y Raya

General conception and coordination:

Carlos Caires

Immersive Sound System: Projecto DME / Lisboa Incomum

Design and realisation of the light structure:

Judit Castells, Daniela Guevara, Alexander Dojur (Idpa) e

Andrea Tamburrino (Tamboo)

Estudantes da BAU, Centro Universitário de Artes e Design de Barcelona

Production:

Miguel Pires de Matos (MONSTRA)

Rita Campiã (MONSTRA)

Edgar Maciel (MONSTRA)

Noel Pallazo (Punto y Raya)

Ana Santos (Punto y Raya)

Financial support:

Generalitat de Catalunya – Departament de Cultura

República Portuguesa | Cultura

Instituto do Cinema e do Audiovisual

Creative Europe Media

Câmara Municipal de Lisboa