Marshmallow Laser Feast [Ersin Han Ersin (b. 1984), Barnaby Steel (b. 1978) & Robin McNicholas (b. 1979)] is a London-based artist collective whose work investigates the entanglements of human perception and the more-than-human world. Working across immersive installation, extended reality (XR), film and performance, they construct multisensory environments and artworks in which data becomes sensorial, ecological systems become intimate and the invisible processes that sustain life are made perceptible.
Research forms the backbone of their practice. Each project emerges from dialogue and collaboration with scientific institutions and subject specialists - ecologists, neuroscientists, technologists and philosophers - translating complex systems such as photosynthesis, fungal networks and human respiration into embodied narrative experiences. Through this transdisciplinary methodology, the collective probes how perception shapes knowledge and opens new ways of inhabiting and understanding the living world.
Their immersive works unfold as affective spaces where imagination and information collide, inviting audiences to inhabit perspectives beyond human, to experience the rhythms and processes of life and to reconsider their place within interconnected ecosystems.
Their work has been presented internationally in major cultural institutions and festivals including ACMI (2022), ArtScience Museum (2022), Barbican Centre (2022), Espacio Fundación Telefónica (2025), Factory International (2024), Museum of the Future (Permanent), Phi Centre (2022), Royal Botanical Gardens Kew (2025), Saatchi Gallery (2018), Sundance Film Festival (2019), SXSW (2018) and Yorkshire Sculpture Park (2025).
