ACIIID Jungle (2018) was an immersive, multi-sensory performance by Miami-based artist Haiiileen, commissioned by The Bass Museum of Art. Combining light, sound, movement, and costume design, the work transformed the museum’s Collins Park space into a vibrational rainforest of color and energy.

This performance marked a turning point in Haiiileen’s artistic evolution — a moment when her fascination with synesthetic color theory and environmental transformation fully merged with institutional presentation and live choreography.

Title: ACIIID Jungle (2018) — Immersive Performance & Installation at The Bass Museum

• Artist / Creative Director: Haiiileen
• Presented by: The Bass Museum, Miami Beach
• Medium: Installation, Performance, Sound, Light, Costume Design
• Dimensions: 1,200 sq ft site-specific installation
• Year: 2018

Description

In ACIIID Jungle, Haiiileen envisioned a psychedelic ecosystem where sound becomes color, and movement becomes light. The installation utilized UV-reactive materials, mirrored surfaces, fog, and projections to simulate an abstract rainforest pulsing with rhythm.

Performers wearing reflective costumes moved through the space like living organisms, embodying the frequencies of the accompanying soundscape — an original mix of ambient bass, tribal percussion, and electronic resonance.

“ACIIID Jungle was about creating a living frequency — a space that breathes in color and exhales in rhythm.” — Haiiileen

The audience was invited to walk among the performers, dissolving the barrier between viewer and participant, transforming observation into embodied experience.

Conceptual Framework

• Synesthetic Ecology: Translating the experience of sound into visible, tactile form.
• Collective Transformation: Viewers become participants in a living color organism.
• Cultural Rebirth: Reimagining the museum as an active environment of creation rather than observation.
• New Material Spirituality: The use of neon, mirrored plastic, and light as sacred elements in the digital age.

Installation Components

• Reflective and neon-acrylic structures arranged as sculptural “flora.”
• Custom lighting sequence synchronized to deep-bass frequencies.
• Performance choreography inspired by ritual movement and natural patterns.
• Custom costuming designed by Haiiileen in collaboration with Miami-based stylists.
• Interactive projection mapping that responded to body motion and light shift.

Artist Reflection

“The Bass gave me the opportunity to evolve my immersive art into something truly alive — something that could move, breathe, and pulse with the same intensity as a sound wave.”

Haiiileen described ACIIID Jungle as an awakening — a culmination of her earlier club installations (III Points 2014–2016) and a prelude to her later museum-scale exhibitions (LightScapes, Haiii on Society). It solidified her reputation as an artist working at the intersection of fashion, sound, performance, and architectural art.

Archival Significance

• First collaboration between Haiiileen and The Bass Museum of Art.
• Bridged her festival work (III Points, Space Residency) to institutional spaces.
• Early example of her “living frequency” approach — where light, sound, and body merge.
• Introduced signature elements (UV light, reflection, vibrational choreography) that recur in later works.
• Considered a precursor to LightScapes (2018–2019) and Haiii on Society (2020).

Archival ID: H2018-ACIIIDJUNGLE

“I wanted the audience to feel surrounded by sound — to feel like they were walking through a thought made of color.”