Open Milieux: Setouchi Triennale and Immersive Art

Setouchi Triennale offers an alternative mode of immersive art that operates as an indeterminant milieu of open totality, which initiates and incubates aesthetic significances and spiritual possibilities through sensorial intensity and epistemological opacity. The article draws on George Canguilhem’s theorization on “milieu” and Deleuze’s conceptualization of an indeterminate “any-space-whatever” to conceptualize this approach to immersive art, while situating it within a lineage of global experience economy.