»The Green Spill« is an immersive mixed-reality virtual experience (XR) that invites participants to explore the profound intersections of biology, neurology, and technology in the age of digital transformation. Through three distinct ›worlds‹ in three separate XR headsets – the biological self, the neurological self, and the technological self – participants are guided on a journey that examines the human condition, our evolving relationship with the natural world, and the deep tensions between our physical bodies and the digital realms we inhabit.
As participants move through the mixed-reality environment, they are guided by a narrator who challenges them to engage their senses, reflect on their place in the world, and question the boundaries between self and other, physical and virtual.
Sophie Erlund (*1978, Denmark) lives and works in Berlin. She holds a degree in Fine Art Sculpture from Central St. Martin’s College of Art & Design in London. In her practice, Erlund has long explored a variety of themes and questions about the human experience and its relationship with the more-than-human world, creating sculptures, installations, videos and complex soundscapes and virtual reality artworks, which deal with the central theme of transition and understanding the world through the irrational mind, and in particular our ongoing entanglement with artificial intelligence and its impact on our psychology. Recent solo exhibitions include Nature is an event that never stops, PSM, Berlin, DE (2023), Destined to Protect the Productive, PSM, Berlin, DE (2021), Acting in Concert, SP A C ED OU T, Kerkow, DE (2019). Her work was shown in several group exhibitions, such as Festival of Future Nows, Neue Nationalgalerie Berlin, DE (2025), Worlds in Motion, 30 Years Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, DE (2024), Worlds Within Worlds, curated by Jelena Tamindžija Donnart, Museum of Contemporary Art, Dubrovnik, HR (2023) and Rewilding Attention, screening program as part of Rewilding the Museum at ARKEN Museum of Modern Art, Ishøj, DK (2022).
Sophie Erlund is also a tenured Professor of Art in Architecture at TU Munich, since 2025.
Abbildung: »The Biological Self« (Detail) © Sophie Erlund