Ecotoon
(click for more information)2026
Sound & Installation
Bewaerschole
OPENING ECOTOON 15/08 14:30
The Bewaerschole invited me to spent a month on Schouwen-Duiveland for their programme ‘Moving Along with the Environment’. This programme is about the moment of disruption we are currently experiencing: climate change, epidemics, migration flows, and the energy transition. Artists are invited to reflect on these themes, shifting from seeing humans as the central actors to seeing humanity as part of the fabric of all living things—not as a separate entity, but as part of nature.
For a month, I lived and worked on Schouwen-Duiveland. Walking, sitting still, listening. To the wind blowing , seagulls diving for fish, sand scraping, water that sometimes sounds loud and then soft again. Listening with my ears, with my feet: to the ecotone: the places where water and land meet. This resulted in a sound work featuring sounds from soil and water. Grevelingenmeer, the creeks, the front row of a morning concert at Plan Tureluur. And, of course, members of choir Zilt from Burgh-Haamstede.
During my residency, Maike Hemmers came by several times. We walked together across the island and had long conversations about how to listen with the body. These conversations led to a new, independent work by Maike, developed especially for this exhibition: a textile sculpture that serves as a soft surface for listeners to sit or lie on.
The work is inspired by Polaris (1987) by Martin Wong, a painting depicting a group of children playing marbles in a circle on a map showing a constellation in the night sky. The sculpture translates this image into a physical place—a surface where visitors, like the children in the painting, gather and turn toward something together.
The fabric is dyed with indigo and plants, most of which come from the garden of Youri Guepin in Nesse, Terneuzen. The patterns were created by wrapping the textile around stones. The surface has been treated with clay and soil from Schouwen-Duiveland.
You are very welcome to come and listen. The opening is on 15 August at 2:30 PM, and the exhibition will be on view until 11 October. During this period, there will also be a number of special concerts and listening sessions. Keep an eye on De Bewaerschole for the programme.
Photo by Annelies Verhelst
Series of Echoes
(click for more information)2025
Installation
Prospects & Concepts, Art Rotterdam
Series of Echoes is an installation exploring hidden aspects of the world around us. Echo #1 combines steel and eco-printed silk—crafted with eucalyptus, nettle, hibiscus, and more. Steel embodies solidity and industriality, while silk, dyed with natural pigments often invisible in the plants themselves, evokes delicate organic traces. Within the space, Echo #2 can be heard: deep, crackling earthly sounds from below meet clear dripping and leaking noises from above. These compositions blend field recordings from the melting Morteratsch Glacier with subterranean earth sounds, tape feedback, voice, and synthesizers. The work creates a multi-sensory reflection on nature, time, and the unseen layers of our environment.
swellS
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2025
Installation & Performance
Nest, Den Haag
[Spill Gold X Studio Noralie]
A gleaming cascade, a silver waterfall. Mountains quiver like a mirage on the horizon, dissolving into a tranquil lake, a mirror or portal to another world. Taking two forms, a 50-minute live show and a standalone installation, swellS is an audiovisual collaboration between Spill Gold and Studio Noralie. Blurring sculpture, textiles, and performance, it evokes ripples as metaphors for ecological entanglement. At its centre hangs a monumental reflective curtain, animated by robotic beaters triggered by MIDI. Strikes send waves across the cloth, forming a luminous, breathing landscape that dances with polyrhythmic sound: light, motion, matter, sound entwine in responsive equilibrium.
The Listening Project
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Installation & PerformanceLikeminds, Amsterdam / South London Gallery, London / Extrapool, Nijmegen / Tolhuistuin, Amsterdam
The Listening Project (TLP) is a collective formed by Rosalie Wammes, Roos Pollmann (ROOSPEEE), and Rosa Ronsdorf. The project originates from Rosa Ronsdorf’s artistic research The Electronic Tide, developed during her studies at the Dutch Art Institute. This research investigates the unheard women of electronic music and approaches the archive as a living, feedbacking system rather than a hidden historical record. Through sound installations and performances, TLP explores the political, spatial, and ecological qualities of sound, foregrounding the invisible, inaudible, and overlooked. Drawing inspiration from female pioneers such as Delia Derbyshire, Daphne Oram, Pauline Oliveros, and others, the collective builds a sonic counter-archive based on feedback, sisterhood, and deep listening.
Kameyama: an encounter with a turtle-shaped mountain (click for more information)
2023Performance
Arts Itoya, Takeo-Onsen, Japan
Kameyama, named after the “turtle-shaped mountain,” was a performance created during my residency at Arts Itoya in Takeo, a small town nestled among hills and forests in Kyushu. Inspired by Yamabiko, the yokai of mountain echoes, the performance traces sound as it bounces and transforms—from rocks, field recordings, and voice—forming a dialogue with this nature spirit. With special thanks to Yukiko Tanaka for sharing her own voice.
ifyouspeakthetruthyourvoicebecomesariver
2020Score
This score can be performed collectively, allowing the piece to emerge through shared action. It was developed within the study group Performing the Living: Living the Performing, initiated by SAVVY Contemporary in relation to sonsbeek 2020.
Listen to an example of the executed score