Sean is best known as the founder and creative force behind The Waldorf Project, an ongoing experimental art platform launched in 2012 that has gained international recognition for pushing the limits of immersive and participatory experience.
Through The Waldorf Project, Sean has conceived and directed large-scale, radical performance environments often described as “empathy engineering” experiments. These works dissolve the boundary between audience and performer, combining ritual, architecture, sound, choreography, and psychological framing to explore connection, vulnerability, and collective consciousness. The project has been realised worldwide, involving over 5,000 participants in Thailand and a high-altitude performance for 400 people aboard a Lufthansa flight, an unprecedented context for live immersive art.
As a natural continuation of The Waldorf Project, Sean expanded his practice into virtual reality with Virtual Serenity, translating his principles of collective experience into a large-scale XR environment. Conceived as one of the most ambitious location-based VR empathy experiments to date, Virtual Serenity enabled up to 288 participants to share a synchronized virtual journey, extending Sean’s exploration of presence, emotional resonance, and shared human states into the digital realm.
From the conversation
Performances and films
• Barzakh — Waldorf Project, Chapter Four — https://vimeo.com/463347773
• Colour — Waldorf Project, Chapter Two — https://vimeo.com/135048159
• Futuro — Waldorf Project, Chapter Three — https://vimeo.com/363161180
• Futuro-A — the Lufthansa performance — https://vimeo.com/375085629
• Futuro-X — the Wonderfruit performance — https://vimeo.com/320695865
• Muskmelon — Waldorf Project, Chapter One — https://vimeo.com/52391681
• Virtual Serenity — https://vimeo.com/1087353747
Artists and studios
• Alex McDowell on Design Discipline — https://designdisciplin.com/p/alex-mcdowell
• Aoi + Esteban — https://aoiesteban.com
• Imogen Knight — https://imogenknight.com
• Punchdrunk — https://www.punchdrunk.com
Music
• Futuro (Music for the Waldorf Project) by Not Waving — https://notwavingmusic.bandcamp.com/album/futuro-music-for-the-waldorf-project-2
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