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The Cost of Entry is a Heartbeat, (2020)

Spatial Sound Performance, heartbeat sensor, vibrotactile, field recordings, lighting, digital video projection

The Cost of Entry is a Heartbeat is an immersive spatial sound experience drawing on field recordings from thermal bathhouses in Budapest, Hungary combined with live heartbeat data from people attending the piece. The artist believes that the first step towards understanding difference lies in our ability to be together.

This performance invites people to come together and just be, held by the rhythm of our collective heartbeats.

Developed at the Spatial Sound Institute in Budapest, Hungary (2020) and Lobe Studio (2022) in Vancouver. Exhibited in different forms at Galerie UQAM (2024) and Phi Centre (2025).

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Press:

Pandemic Fatigue, Resocialization and Collective Health: Salima Punjani on Listening and Sensing Foreignness (2021), by Alifiyah Imani.

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This project was made possible with the support of the Canada Council for the Arts and the CALQ.

A masked person holds a lavender pillow while feeling their heartbeat with their hand.
A masked person holds a lavender pillow while feeling their heartbeat with their hand.
Person lies in bed under a blanket with a thermal lake projection on a half-moon screen behind them.
Person lies in bed under a blanket with a thermal lake projection on a half-moon screen behind them.

Pillow talk - a guided daydream at Galerie UQAM as part of Bed Life curated by Sarah Heussaf

An audio described and captioned film capturing the initial performance at the SSI in Budapest, Hungary

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