Satsang means “being-together in truth.”

SATSANG is a public artwork that appears where the world gathers. I set up two chairs beneath a white helium balloon and sit in stillness. Whoever sits across from me receives my complete and undivided attention.

This creates a liminal temple—a sacred threshold that appears without warning in ordinary space. You don’t need to know what it is to enter it. You only need to be curious enough to sit down.

The work creates the conditions for recognition the way Walter de Maria’s The Lightning Field creates the conditions for lightning. The lightning is not guaranteed. Neither is the recognition. But both become more possible in the field.

Through a strict relational liturgy—the offering of tea, three minutes of sustained open-eye meditation, and two direct existential inquiries—the performance systematically strips away social performance. It forces an immediate, non-dual confrontation with identity and mortality. It is an invitation to witness the shared consciousness that exists when the noise of the world is momentarily suspended.

SATSANG has visited:

La Biennale di Venezia, 2026

Bienal de São Paulo, 2025