About Artwork
Date
2024
Type(s)
- Immersive
- Light
- Outdoor
- Sound
- Temporary
- Ticketing
The Black Hole Experience (BHX) is a mobile immersive installation presented by Age of Union and conceived by Dax Dasilva and artist Kelly Nunes, inspired by the physics and spiritual nature of black holes.
Set in a moving vessel, BHX will tour select outdoor venues across North America starting summer 2024 and is currently booking for festivals, fairgrounds, city centres, museums, and universities. First installed in Montreal, it has evolved into a carbon-neutral “eco-portal” featuring light, sound, and 3D–mapped projection.
BHX offers a meditative reset—merging the awe of nature and the cosmos with inner reflection. Through this and global projects, Age of Union seeks to ignite personal transformation and inspire meaningful change. Each visitor’s experience will differ, but all will leave with a sense of interconnectedness, curiosity, and a drive to explore that oneness more deeply.
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Artist(s)
Kelly Nunes & Dax Dasilva
Kelly Nunes is a creative director and multi-disciplinary artist with a background in scenic design and multimedia direction. His practice focuses on responsive environments.
Kelly brings a holistic vision that blends multiple media forms to create powerful experiences that push the boundaries of perception and storytelling. He has a passion for driving innovative technologies at the intersection of architecture and scenography to service transformative, human centered environments. He is known for his monumental and orchestral public art project NEWT Miami, as well as the Celestial Cycle, a series of commissions for Montreal’s Never Apart Gallery comprising the Moon Room, Earth Room and Sun Room. Additional commissions include permanent interactive installation Glacier Cave for Age of Union Earth Centre, as well as the Black Hole Room, and Black Hole Experience for Dax Dasilva and Age of Union.
Born in Toronto, Nunes is currently based in Montreal where he has directed projects for studios such as Moment Factory and Daily Tous Les Jours with clients which have included Allied REIT, Gensler, Google Sidewalk Labs, and independently for Coca Cola and Red Bull Music Academy.
Dax Dasilva is a Montreal-based tech entrepreneur, author, and environmentalist. He is the founder and CEO of Lightspeed Commerce Inc., a global unified point-of-sale and payments platform, and the founder of Age of Union, a non-profit environmental alliance launched alongside his 2019 book of the same name.
Combining his interests in leadership, culture, spirituality, and nature, Dax created Age of Union to support and spotlight grassroots conservation efforts around the world. The organization currently leads 10 major projects across regions such as the Amazon, Indonesia, the Congo, and Canada, focusing on the protection of critical ecosystems and endangered species like turtles, orangutans, dolphins, and gorillas.
Age of Union also produces impactful environmental documentaries, including Wildcat, which won Outstanding Nature Documentary of 2023 at the 44th Annual News & Documentary Emmy Awards. Through immersive initiatives like the Black Hole Experience, the alliance aims to inspire the next generation of environmental changemakers.
