Works
Panorama Experience : Living Waters
Where art and nature converge
Experience
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Release year: 2026
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Location
Grand Quai, Port of Montréal
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What we did
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Partners
Marshmallow Laser Feast
Maryse Goudreau
Mandy Barker
Maxwel Hohn
Grand Quai of the Port of Montreal
Panorama Experience is an essential immersive destination, offering privileged access to both international and local works that reimagine our relationship with nature through technology. The first in the series, Living Waters, features four experiential journeys themed around water and the beauty of aquatic worlds.
About the experience
With a positive and sensitive approach to ecology, Panorama Experience offers a digital, immersive artistic journey inspired by Montréal’s ecology and the site’s unique geography. Located at the Grand Quai, the experience transforms the city’s port into an iconic panorama — a place to wander, marvel, discover, and listen to stories.
Through interactive installations and cutting-edge technology, explore hidden ecosystems and breathtaking vistas. With the Old Port as its emblematic backdrop, Panorama Experience invites you to step into the heart of nature’s narrative and to see the world around us with fresh eyes.
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Seeing Echoes in the Mind of the Whale — Marshmallow Laser Feast
Seeing Echoes In the Mind of the Whale is a large-scale video installation that explores the sensory world of cetaceans. It is a celebration of the multitude of life forms that make up our Earth’s oceans. By merging deep listening data, and scientific insight with artistic expression, the artwork aims to create a multisensory experience that not only illustrates but deeply connects audiences with the marine world.
The piece follows the journeys of three main species—a bottlenose dolphin, a humpback whale, and a sperm whale. Each of these creatures takes a breath at the water’s surface before diving back into the deep blue. With each breath, the perspective shifts, allowing viewers to experience the world through the eyes and senses of these extraordinary animals. Through this shifting lens, the installation highlights the unique ways these species perceive their surroundings.
TADPOLES: The Big Little Migration — Maxwell Hohn
The work is a unique minidocumentary and a world first. The movie documents the incredible daily migration of the western toad tadpoles, a designated threatened species, and one that faces constant risk from urban development.
Over the past four years Maxwel has been visiting a secluded lake on Vancouver Island (a lake that will remain nameless to help protect the species). Each year he has been patiently filming, camping, and photographing the mesmerizing tadpole action. Accumulating what is likely the most comprehensive library of western toad tadpole video, anywhere.
Bearing witness to the incredible, and rarely seen daily migration of tadpoles, Maxwel reached out to fellow filmmaker Russell Clark to write and edit a mini documentary about their journey, and fellow videographer Steve Woods to help frame the story with additional video. The result is an eight minute mini-nature video that has already gained a huge amount of online attention, and captured the hearts of people around the globe.
Entrer en flagrant délit de légender — Maryse Goudreau
Guided by her interest in appropriation writing, Maryse Goudreau draws from news headlines containing the word “beluga” to extract captions, which she then pairs with photographs from the archive she has been building around this animal since 2012. By revisiting two decades of current events, she sheds light on the evolving relationship between humans and this emblematic species. Some legends imagine anthropomorphic narratives in which belugas are displaced from their natural habitats, while others highlight the various ways humans interpret, observe, and divert their trajectories.
Grounded in extensive archival research and conceptual writing, this approach questions how mass media shapes our relationship with the living world. Goudreau’s work bears witness to the many issues that connect us to beluga populations. As climate change accelerates, these social mammals are increasingly venturing beyond their usual range. At the same time, new initiatives aim to create sanctuaries to remove belugas from aquariums and facilitate their transition to marine enclosures.
Hong Kong Soup:1826 — Mandy Barker
This work is a series depicting waste plastic collected from over 30 different beaches in Hong Kong since 2012. Over 1,826 tonnes of municipal plastic waste goes into landfills every day in Hong Kong, and each image reflects the diverse range of these products by highlighting recovered objects or groups that have escaped recycling or landfill.
The images directly relate to the traditions, events, nature, and culture of Hong Kong, with the intention of connecting with its people to provide awareness about the crisis facing effective waste management. Objects include products from manufacturing, retail, household and hazardous waste alongside agricultural, medical and fishing related debris.
湯 (SOUP) is a description given to plastic debris suspended in the sea, in this case with a direct reference to the waste crisis in Hong Kong. The series aims to engage with the public by stimulating an emotional response, combining a contradiction between initial aesthetic attraction with an awareness to encourage social responsibility.
