Armat Ritual: Live Art & Meditation is a participatory, time-based work by Yadi Liu that unfolds through a sequence of gestures, encounters, and collective attention. The project brings together drawing, sound, and social space as a shared ritual.
The work begins with an act of offering: tea is served to each participant, followed by a collective gesture of drinking that marks a shift into a shared temporal field. Participants are then invited into one-on-one encounters with the artist, translating internal states into color, language, and mark-making. These exchanges accumulate as a living visual archive of subjective “inner weather.”
As the environment deepens, live vocal guidance by Michel Pascal introduces a sonic structure that supports collective attention. Photographic images of participants are captured and reworked through real-time drawing, where lines emerge, obscure, and reconfigure the body, tracing an ephemeral layer of presence beyond fixed representation. The session concludes with collective humming, extending individual perception into a shared field.
Situated between performance, installation, and social ritual, Armat Ritual considers how interior experience, thought, emotion, and perception, might be made perceptible as a collective form.
Credits
Concept, Direction & Visual Art: Yadi Liu
Meditation & Vocal: Michel Pascal
Spoken Words & Spatial Audio: Participants
Video Editing: Yadi Liu
Cinematography: Jiani (Jenny) Wang
Photography: Sharon
360 Capture: Guobiao (Gary) Li
Presented in collaboration with
Chinatown Partnership
Museum of Chinese in America (MOCA)
Tea materials courtesy of Ivy Hermit.
New York, 2026
Featured by the Museum of Chinese in America (MOCA)
Armat is a meditative art world by Yadi Liu. Where yoga, Zen, and art become one.
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