Indigenous cosmology at the Paseo Festival

OMAi collaborated with with Agnes Chavez of STEMarts Lab and Steve Tamayo, a cultural specialist from the Lakota tribe, to present improvisational storytelling sessions inside a projection-mapped tipi, relating indigenous cosmology to concepts from the world of quantum physics.

Steve built the tipi at Kit Carson Park in the center of Taos. It became a 360-degree canvas to bring his stories to life using Tagtool. During the two festival days, the audience witnessed captivating narratives, visualized live as stunning projections.

For five hours each night, every fifteen minutes, twenty spectators came into the tepee.

Students of Taos Day School, Taos Integrated School of the Arts, Santa Fe Indian School, and the Native American Community Academy contributed additional Tagtool drawings, created in workshops leading up to the festival.