TORUS is an immersive sensory experience which challenges traditional modes of perception in virtual reality. It simulates a proximity to organic matter that is otherwise inaccessible to the five senses. TORUS is navigated through with a self-operated inversion table. The visitor leverages their body weight to tilt forward or backwards (physically) in order to manage their surroundings (virtually). The interactive potential of mediating the virtual component of the visitor experience via an overtly physical apparatus is an opportune departure from the distracted mass and a return to the absorbed individual.

A compulsion to experience ourselves and our anatomy from an inverted perspective is at once the point of departure and arrival for TORUS. What would it be like to inhabit our own body, to travel through it like a visitor?

TORUS takes shape as we imagine the sensory possibilities this perspective could explore: sifting through a matrix of fascia or treading down a spinal pathway; the vertigo of being enclosed by a cavernous ribcage and the disturbia of peering through the window of an eye socket into the architecture of the human skull beyond.