Fifth Invention
14/02 - 28/03, 2026Installation
Hubert, Nijmegen
[The Listening Project]
The Fifth Invention is an installation inspired by Delia Derbyshire’s overlooked legacy and her 1953 radio piece Four Inventions for Radio. After Derbyshire’s death in 2001, hundreds of tapes and papers were found in her attic, revealing the depth of a practice long uncredited and unheard. While the original work explored dreams, the afterlife, and time through recorded voices, The Fifth Invention responds by listening back—slowly and attentively—to time itself. It proposes deep listening as a way to encounter absence, delayed recognition, and the quiet persistence of feminist sonic histories.
For Space in Sound, an exhibition by Sinus at Hubert in Nijmegen, The Listening Project revisted their 2022 performance ‘200 tapes and a box of a thousand papers’ and transformed this into an installation. We welcome you, this time on an actual attic, from the 14th of February on.