All work

Soft Possibilities..
Synchronized Heartbeat..

Year

2025

Venue

New Forms Festival · Vancouver, BC

Format

3-channel video · quadrophonic sound

Circadian rhythm rendered in light, sound, and time.

Audiovisual Composition Installation

Soft Possibilities.. Synchronized Heartbeats.. explores synchronicity across bodies, sound, ecological rhythms, and circadian clocks. It frames listening and visual engagement as pathways to perceive the temporal flows inherent in interaction and relation.

The naturally repeating cycles of activities, seasons, life and death, and the biorhythms of nature represent the true calendar of living Earth. Enforced clocks separate human temporal perception from our innate experiences of time, creating psychological shifts from a reverent engagement with life's oscillations to a rigid hegemony of centralized, standardized time, and time scarcity.

Here, participants experience time as relational and ecological, where co-synchronization emerges through attention, interaction among living beings, and dialogue. This work positions these practices as a form of temporal decentralization, exploring how alternative rhythms grounded in care, collective attunement, and life's oscillations can shape human experience.

Connect with your inner clock — your heartbeat — and share in synchronicity.

Installation format
I Channel 01
II Channel 02
III Channel 03
3-channel synchronized video Quad mix · 4-speaker · 1-subwoofer New Forms Festival 2025
01Video documentation
Soft Possibilities · New Forms Festival Vancouver · 2025
02Photography
XEL · Soft Possibilities — installation overview, New Forms Festival Vancouver 2025, photo Kris V
XEL · Soft Possibilities — 3-channel video installation, synchronized screens, New Forms 2025
XEL · Soft Possibilities — circadian rhythm installation detail, New Forms Festival 2025
XEL · Soft Possibilities — triptych video wall, life oscillations in light and sound
XEL · Soft Possibilities — installation view, quadrophonic sound environment, Vancouver 2025
XEL · Soft Possibilities — video channel detail, New Forms Festival 2025
XEL · Soft Possibilities — screen composition, synchronized heartbeat installation
XEL · Soft Possibilities — portrait view, 3-channel AV installation, New Forms Festival 2025
XEL · Soft Possibilities — wide installation view, New Forms Festival Vancouver 2025

Photography — Kris V · New Forms Festival · Vancouver 2025

03Credits
XEL (Hadis Fard) — concept, audiovisual composition