NEW YORK, NY.- reSOUND New York, a site-specific multisensory art exhibition presented by d’strict at HERO in Rockefeller Center, announces reSENSE, a new season on view through October 18, 2026. An exhibition of contemporary art that engages all the senses simultaneously, reSOUND New York is the only exhibition of its kind in New York City: an evolving platform where sound, light, touch, movement, and material practice converge beneath one of the most iconic landmarks in the world.

reSENSE significantly expands reSOUND’s original framework through four major new additions: Katie Scott’s Story of Flowers, a luminous animated short created in collaboration with motion designer James Paulley and Japanese flowerartist Azuma Makoto, which opens the exhibition in an immersive large-scale presentation tracing the lifecycle of flowers with scientific precision and ecological tenderness; MASARY Studios’ Glitche, a psychoacoustic video installation that navigates the unstable terrain between digital distortion and human memory; SHOPLIFTER’s Fathoms, a hypernatural tactile environment of cascading synthetic forms that invites visitors to touch, hold, and be held by the work; and WHISPER: Salon, a new format within reSOUND presenting 34 works by seven emerging Korean artists based in New York, working in painting and object-based practice.



“Since launching reSOUND in Seoul in 2024, one of our core goals has been to offer audiences a distinctive multisensory art immersion that is difficult to find elsewhere. In an age of constant visual saturation and screen-based stimulation, reSOUND continues to evolve as a cultural platform where sensation, materiality, and artistic engagement converge.” — L. J. Kim, Artistic Director of reSOUND

Neither a traditional museum nor a conventional experiential venue, reSOUND is a new kind of cultural space, one that brings together international and emerging contemporary artists working across video installation, interactive sculpture, immersive sound, textile, and object-based practice, united by a commitment to art that is not merely viewed or decoded, but inhabited.



Some sensations are felt before they are fully understood. In an ever more screen-centered, individualized, and accelerated age, opportunities for fully embodied sensory experience have become increasingly rare. reSOUND opens a different kind of experiential space beneath Rockefeller Center, one of the most relentlessly traversed surfaces in New York: neither spectacle nor retreat, but a site where sensation is allowed to arrive before meaning does. Unfolding across eight stages, the exhibition guides visitors through a carefully sequenced sensory journey at their own pace, from the delicate, blooming world of Katie Scott's Story of Flowers and the weightless luminous corridor of Children of the Light’s Transito, to the fur-covered instrument walls of Fillip Studios’ Tactile Orchestra, the vibratory poetry of Eric Gunther’s Boundless Body, and the infinite interactive light sculpture of Spiraling into Infinity II by Children of the Light in collaboration with Alexander Whitley Dance Company.

NEW WORKS AND ARTISTS

Katie Scott (b. 1988, United Kingdom), in collaboration with motion designer James Paulley and Japanese floral artist Azuma Makoto, presents Story of Flowers (2017, 3:28 min), a luminous animated short that traces the life cycle of flowers in rich, layered detail, weaving Scott’s intricate illustrative style with Paulley’s fluid motion and Makoto’s poetic understanding of floral form. Known for her publications Animalium (2014, Children’s Book of the Year, The Sunday Times) and Botanicum (2016), Scott brings a practice rooted in scientific observation and fantastical imagination to a large-scale immersive presentation that opens the new season.



MASARY Studios (Boston, est. 2015) presents Glitche (2023, 10:30 min), an immersive installation composed of fabric, single-channel video projection, and multi-channel sound that derives from the idea of a glitch: an error or unexpected malfunction in a system. Playing on the technique of ‘datamoshing’, in which multiple frames of pixels smear and collide to create visual abstract artifacts, Glitche offers the viewer an embodied experience of how memory, error, and technological fragmentation shape human perception, inhabiting the delicate intersection of visceral intensity and tender rapture.

SHOPLIFTER (Hrafnhildur Arnardóttir) (b. 1969, Iceland/USA), who represented Iceland at the Venice Biennale in 2019, presents Fathoms (2026), a site-specific installation of cascading floating sculptures made with synthetic hair that creates a hypernatural forest for visitors to move through, touch, and embrace. The work takes its name from the Icelandic word faðmur, meaning both a unit of depth measured by the body and the act of holding someone close, merging organic and synthetic elements into a direct sensory communication between visitor and artwork.



WHISPER: Salon introduces a new format within reSOUND New York, bringing together seven emerging Korean artists based in New York: Herok, Hwichan, Nayoun Ryu, Phoebe Kalm Choi, Sangho Han, Siha Park, and Yeonji Chung. Presenting 34 works in painting and object-based practice, the salon creates an environment where distinct artistic voices exist in proximity, continuously reshaped by adjacency, intimacy, and dialogue. Through this format, reSOUND expands beyond immersive media into a wider contemporary platform that incorporates generational, diasporic, and material discourse.

For reSENSE, d’strict presents four newly introduced works: FLOW: Thereafter (2025), Art Performance (2020), Ocean (2022/2024), and Whale (2024), further expanding the exhibition’s sensory framework through immersive digital environments.

CONTINUING WORKS

Continuing works in reSENSE include: Children of the Light’s luminous corridor installation Transito (2018–2023) and interactive light sculpture Spiraling into Infinity II (2022, in collaboration with Alexander Whitley Dance Company); Fillip Studios’ Tactile Orchestra (2018); Eric Gunther’s vibratory poem Boundless Body (2025); Liam Lee’s textile installation Breathing Room (2025); Hannah Bigeleisen’s sculptural works Tall Stack Lamp and Petal Collection (both 2025); and JUMBO’s Fortune Chair (2024).