Le Vide AUM is a 13-year performance artwork by the artist Ki Niet A IK’tein. Its beginning is dated August 1st, 2016 at 11:27:47 UTC, and its culmination is set for August 1st, 2029 at 11:27:47 UTC. .
The vision of this work emerged after the artist experienced a near-death event—a traffic accident that nearly took his life. During the first days of surgery and intensive recovery, the vision of this work appeared in a dream, as a vast fabric illuminating moments connected by something greater.
In the months that followed, dedicated to bodily regeneration, the concept and its tools emerged through writing and painting, later expanding into performance art and, as of 2025, into information systems.
Le Vide AUM is a fusion of two concepts. Le Vide, from French, refers to a void that can be crossed, a portal. It draws reference from Yves Klein’s studies on immaterial spaces of sensitivity, particularly his work Saut dans le Vide (1959). AUM, on the other hand, is a concept and symbol used across various religions and cultures, referring to the sound of universal creation—a resonance that endures and enables awareness of the whole.
Thus, the first definition of Le Vide AUM is:
“That empty space which allows the inhabitation of universal resonance.”
Performance, in this context, is a global relational phenomenon, inviting participation in the collective inhabitation of an immaterial sculpture constructed through the connectivity of each of its parts.
It is an invitation to belong.
