-

‹ ZENSPA › is an experimental performance that explores the therapeutic effects of sensory deprivation through EEG brainwave detection and a breathing machine. Using face casting to limit sight, smell, and orientation, the work reduces perception to the rhythmic act of breathing, allowing sensory input to fall away and inner calm to surface. 

​

By narrowing attention to breathing—its repetitive {inhale–exhale} cycle—the work reduces sensory complexity, allowing the body to disengage from anxious cognition and drift into a suspended state of awareness. EEG monitoring renders this shift perceptible in real time, exposing mental states usually left unobserved. Set against a fast-paced, digitised culture of sensory overload, the work reframes technology not as stimulus but as a mediating instrument, through which rest becomes legible via neurological data : measurable, structured, and momentarily reclaimed.