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Enter a serene, sensory “pop-up” environment on our sculpture court, where Michele Occelli, Ben Khan, and Lewis Walker guide a session focused on widening the scope of embodied awareness. Presented by the design collective More Human Systems, this unique in-bubble experience serves as an exploration of collective attunement, weaving together somatic practices, spatial awareness, and gentle transformation.
Ben Khan, Michele Occelli, and Lewis Walker are three artists working across architecture, meditation, and movement. Together, they facilitate a gradual shift in perception—inviting participants into a more fluid, emergent state of being.
Ben Khan
Born in London in 1992 to Kashmiri heritage, Ben Khan is a British artist whose multidisciplinary work spans over a decade of music-making and a recent architectural education at the Architectural Association. His practice delves into experimental sound and spatial interventions that foster alternative modes of gathering and communal experience. Khan’s projects probe ideas of territory and the body, blurring the boundaries between the tangible and the intangible by harnessing forces like resonance and sound to reimagine ecosystems, landscapes, and ritualistic social forms.
Michele Occelli
For more than ten years, Michele Occelli has designed and led workshops that fuse hypnotherapy with performance, dance, visual art, and architectural contexts to deepen the mind–body dialogue. His programs have been hosted at prestigious venues such as the Barbican Centre, Camden Art Centre, the Architectural Association, and UAL in the UK; ICA LA in the U.S.; Between Bridges in Berlin and FMAV in Modena across Europe; and Volte Art Project in Mumbai, India. A fully accredited hypnotherapist holding postgraduate diplomas in Ericksonian Hypnotherapy and NLP, Occelli trained under luminaries like Stephen Brooks, Dr. Ernest Rossi, and Dr. Stephen Gilligan. His holistic methodology integrates clinical hypnotherapy, somatic techniques, and mindfulness practices. With over 15 years of professional experience, he offers individual and group sessions both online and from his London practice. He is registered with the General Hypnotherapy Standards Council (GHSC) and the General Hypnotherapy Register (GHR). In partnership with movement artist Lewis Walker, they developed MOVE HYPNO—a practice that blends movement and hypnotherapy to support personal growth
Lewis Walker
A queer, non-binary movement practitioner from London, Lewis Walker began gymnastics at age 6 and went on to become an Acrobatic Gymnastics World Champion before earning a degree in Contemporary Dance. Their creative portfolio spans theatre, film, fashion, music, and commercial commissions. Walker continues to craft competition routines for the Great Britain, Italian, and French gymnastics teams. Over the years, they’ve collaborated with figures such as Tim Walker, Yorgos Lanthimos, ANOHNI, Tirzah, BULLYACHE, Burberry, UNTITLAB, and the Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA). Beyond performance, Walker is dedicated to using movement as a pathway to heightened consciousness and consensual touch. Their “Connecting to Improv” workshop treats dance improvisation as a ritual of shared energy and expression. In partnership with hypnotherapist Michele Occelli, they developed MOVE HYPNO—a practice that blends movement and hypnotherapy to support personal growth. Walker currently holds a residency as a Studio Wayne McGregor RESIDENT 6 artist.
