As part of As One, the “Mutual Wave Machine” is be installed inside the Benaki Museum. The machine was designed by the renowned neurologist and artist Suzanne Dikker and the artist and software creator Matthias Oostrik, and inspired by Marina Abramović’s “Mutual Gaze” performance, which forms part of the Abramović Method. The machine was installed by Peter Burr, Diederik Schoorl and Pantelis Diamantidis.

This neuroscience experiment and interactive neurofeedback installation explores and embodies the elusive notion of “being on the same wavelength” with another person through brainwave synchronisation. Enclosed by an intimate capsule and immersed in an audiovisual environment that responds and reflects their shared brain activity, two visitors can directly experience and manipulate their internal efforts to approach or distance themselves from each other.