ABANU
A laboratory for human experience
Exploring how movement, art, systems and technology shape perception, presence and the way we experience life.
Every experiment begins with curiosity.
Abanu is an ongoing investigation into how experiences shape perception, presence, movement, learning, relationships and the way we inhabit the world.
Some investigations become software.
Some become films.
Some become books.
Some become conversations.
Some become movement.
The medium changes.
The question remains.
A living archive
Ongoing inquiries held across time, medium and material. The archive continues to grow.
A map of the practice
Something is noticed, without a name for it yet.
The observation is kept and returned to across days.
A form appears — a note, a diagram, an object, an image.
The work is left in the archive to be found or forgotten.
Materials of the laboratory
Notation
Handwritten notebooks · Field marks · Diagrams
Photography
Windows · Tables · Streets · Rooms
Text
Essays · Fragments · Letters · Marginalia
Objects
Assembled forms · Prototypes · Instruments
Recordings
Ambient · Voice · Domestic sound
Correspondence
Postcards · Exchanges · Long letters
Cartography
Personal maps · Walks · Territories
Attention is a form of care
Abanu is not a service. It is a laboratory — a slow, ongoing study of the ordinary, held together by notation, image and quiet forms of attention.