With the immersive light and sound installation, The Wave, artist collective VERTIGO explores invisible and visible waves. The installation is inspired by how cutting edge technology helps us understand an age-old entity – the human body. X-rays, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and CT-scans, can all be seen as invisible waves that make the inside of our bodies visible to the eye.

While we now accept that invisible waves carry information that can be translated into images and sounds, this concept was revolutionary when X-rays were first discovered, causing a sensation. The Wave invites the audience to experience the shifting nature of waves as they transition between silence and sound, invisibility and visibility.

As you journey through the 80-meter-long light tunnel, you experience traces of technologies that allow us to peer beneath the surface of our skin, deeper into our own body, our own flesh. How does it make you feel? Can you discover something new?

The Wave is inspired by Nobel Prize awarded research on X-ray (physics prize 1901), MRI (medicine prize 2003) and the CT scan (medicine prize 1979).

The Wave is commissioned and owned by Foreningen Ofelia Plads, a collaboration between Jeudan and the Royal Danish Theatre.

X-ray
Composed by Nicolai Mogensen and Vertigo
Nicolai Mogensen: Guitar

MRI
Composed by David Bendix Nielsen and Vertigo
David Bendix Nielsen: Organ. Recorded at Sankt Markus Kirke – Frederiksberg – Denmark

CT-scan
Composed by Vertigo

All visual design and light design by Vertigo