DANIEL BLUE works at the intersection of light, sound, and body, creating immersive experiences that dissolve the boundaries between film, installation, and performance. Rooted in a background in lighting design, studio art, and dance, their work shifted away from the function and problem-solving of design to the pure perception of art—an exploration of presence, sensation, and the thresholds of experience. Their approach is durational, atmospheric, and hypnotic. Light breathes, sound moves, bodies sculpt space. There is no fixed perspective, no passive witness—only immersion. DANIEL BLUE's work resists documentation, existing only in real time, demanding presence. Early work in lighting design spanned dance, opera, concerts, and architecture before giving way to a deeper investigation of movement and space. A 2021 collaboration with Superblue activated Studio Drift’s solo exhibition at The Shed with live performance. In 2023, he was a dance artist-in-residence at Baryshnikov Arts Center, expanding his movement language. His video installation Into the Vortex was screened in Times Square (2024), later evolving into Infinite, a performance and installation presented at the 60th Venice Biennale (2024). That same year, Hyperspace: Infinity was exhibited at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chongqing, China, a meditation on scale, void, and the infinite. Their practice is informed by neuroscience, chromotherapy, and the study of perceptual thresholds. Minimalist yet overwhelming, seductive yet meditative, their work explores overstimulation as a portal—pushing the senses to their limits, resetting perception, and revealing a deeper state of being.
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