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Practice-based case study demonstrates how performative imaging fosters ecological encounters, indicating that transformation depends on participatory conditions.
Immersive installation is often evaluated through the language of spectacle, sensory intensity, and technological sophistication, yet such terms offer only a partial account of how moving images operate within embodied and participatory environments. This article examines performative imaging through the practice-based case study of Rituals for Earthly Survival, an immersive installation combining Butoh-informed performance, projection, sound, responsive technologies, and participatory ecological gestures. It considers how such encounters might create conditions for transformation through shifts in attention, relation, and imagination. Awe is considered one affective register through which such reorientation may occur, particularly where encounters with vastness unsettle existing perceptual or conceptual frames. Analysis of the installation, supported by project documentation, limited post-show audience feedback, and two independently commissioned peer reviews, suggests that performative imaging can operate as an ecological encounter by entangling images with bodies, architecture, technologies, and material processes. The evidence also reveals uneven experiences of participation, legibility, and immersion. The article argues that transformative potential depends not only on what images represent but also on the conditions they help to produce.
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